10-10-01 (Delphi)

 

 

Good Morning, Apollo

 

Having seen the god

To bed the night before,

Awoke early to catch him rising.

Helios' team,

Adamant, restrained,

Ignites its master's eponymous sphere;

Valley mists set a'luminescing.

________s' joyous morning-calls

Rush downhill in overlapping cascades.

As the charioteer crests the Eastern mount an

Hitchcockian din inflames the hillside;

The bees in their trees disallow further slumber.

Ghosts throng the ancient theater

Looking down on the neglected god:

Resilient, beautiful still, rising

Gracefully from his dilapidated bed.

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