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Thoughts on Recent Attacks of Boats of Refugees in the Mediterranean

9/17/2014

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Shipwrecks

In the seas of time
I looked at the soundings
and found
what was --

raft of survivors
from The Medusa
the few not eaten
murdered drowned
cast off
adrift for days
swallowed by greed

& The Lusitania sunk
all its pretty chickens
and their dams
gone down
in minutes
for war gods’ feasts

I checked again
and found  what  is–
swamped, overloaded boats,
drowned & half-dead
refugees unwelcome
in their promised lands

fleeing hunger –
they fed the seas
pearls their eyes,
hollow bones
unburied ghosts
full fathoms deep

    Unpublished poem by Phyllis Beck Katz


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    This Blog begins with a description of my development as a poet, and goes on to discuss my teaching with Donald Sheehan, long-time director of The Frost Place. In subsequent entries I describe the summer programs at The Frost Place and The Fine Arts Work Center and discuss the reading and writing of poems.

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