Thursday, 3/6: “Atlantis – A Lost Sonnet”
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from Eavan Boland:
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city—
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.
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Intrepid Girl Reporter 
That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Laura J March 7, 2008 @ 6:52 amYou should share this with Tom. He thinks Atlantis is under one of the polar ice caps, you know.
Comment by Soccer March 8, 2008 @ 1:41 pm