At Paestum.

Poetry | August 1, 2002| | Copyright 
 
AT PAESTUM 
 
   Our bus maintains a distance-runner's pace. 
   Lurching on tires scraped bare as marrowbones, 
   It whisks us past a teeming marketplace. 
   We shun life. What we're after is old stones. 
 
   Pillars the Greeks erected with a crane 
   Went up in sections as canned fruit is stacked. 
   An accurate spear could pierce a soldier's brain 
   Before he'd even known he'd been attacked. 
 
   Bright fresco of a wild symposium 
   With busy whores, nude boys, a choice of wines-- 
   ("And where in Massachusetts are you from?") 
   Abruptly, snowdrifts clasp the ...

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