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Sonnets From Other Lives: Anton

Anton lingers in the dark Agora
to commune a little longer with the ghosts
of the Golden Age. He sits before a
ruined stoa—watching as a host
of shadows engage in the business of
invoking memories among the living—
threads that bind them to the world above
their bones & shades in Hades. Anton’s giving
them his full attention for a time
before he returns to the Plaka & the present.
This voice of history works on his mind—
he hears the message if not the intent.
Anton rises, shivers--is outcast
by those who rue his presence in the past