Matthew Sisson’s poetry has appeared in journals ranging from the “Harvard Review Online”, to “JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association”. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and read his work on NPR’s “On Point”. His book, “Please, Call Me Moby”, was published by The Pecan Grove Press, of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas.
–Heraklion Museum, Crete
Minoan,
a word as delicate as the brushstrokes
that form your image on the flask.
We know nothing of those who painted you,
except to say they arose from the Aegean.
You are so gentle in demeanor, wide eyed,
delighting in your own physicality-
in sensation- Yours is a tensed truth,
born of this earth, tangled in seaweed-
change, mutability and joy, with arms
akimbo.
I wonder who we would be, had
we descended from you- free from
Socratic chains that bind us still.
Poetry in this post: © Matthew Sisson
Published with the permission of Matthew Sisson