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Carthage by Rusty Gladdish
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CARTHAGE
Phoenician faces, almost Grecian
Stare in wide-eyed wonder
At the weary twentieth-century traveller
As he blunders through the arid ancient sites
Cowering under Apollo’s blistering gaze,
Eyes screwed tightly shut against his piercing rays.
Peering intently, almost touching the sun-baked mosaics.
Cheek to cheek with the Phoenician sailors
As they glide in their golden galleons
Across their stony ocean.
Dark eyed Numidian nymphs in secret trysts peep shyly
From underneath their black-fringed lashes,
Frozen in stone, blasted by the sands of time;
Locked forever in another dimension
Like dragonflies in amber.
Knowing how long they’ve waited there
We kneel and stroke their matted hair.
From the collaboration of poems in 'Torn Tickets and Routine Returns' by Rusty and Simon Gladdish
The right of Rusty Gladdish to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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