EARLY CLASSIC STATUE OF POSEIDON

The Artemision Bronze, recovered in 1928 from middle 2nd century BCE shipwreck.

A bronze Poseidon, blinded

by the two millennia on the seabed,

still poised to throw his long-lost

trident at us, mortals,

ever the target of wrath of the gods.

Lord of the sea claimed

by the sea, and

then given back to another kind blue,

the world of air

where no longer his brother Zeus

rules with envy and

his thunderbolts ready. Still,

the blind god stands

magnificent, facing

the stares of mortals

as he faced the long centuries

in his watery realm.

10.01.-11.01.2018