Before Bronze
A feeling like a dizziness, or weak
Unease, a nausea of paleness, or
A seasickness experienced on sleek
Internal waves swells up inside my core
When suddenly I try to comprehend
The eons lost before us. Ancient Rhodes
Was ancient long before its men could send
Me cryptic shattered potsherd hints as codes
About their perished cultures and their lives.
Archaic ages stretching out their hands
With beads upheld reveal to me the wives
Of warriors now long gone on island strands.
Or rather these poor indications show
Besmirched glints, near meaninglessness aglow.