METAMAMORPHOSIS IN MISSALONGHI

Greece, the land where myths

are still made, where

strange metamorphoses heroes make;

to there, to strife

his skin to make

the incestuous Lord came.

In this country deaths

immortals create,

Protean change

wreaks a god from the

suffering flesh; pyre

of disease to cast high

up on the Olympus a Phoenix

that flies from Byron's corpse.

18.11.2018