POMPEII by Salvatore Difalco

This is part of a series of mythically-oriented poems, full of classic and modern imagery and emotional sensitivity by Salvatore DIfalco. This is the second one Hook is publishing, after “Carne”.

POMPEII

Do not hold back words begging help—

the letters of distress spell ashes not sad.

Is this the realm for which we searched the wide world?

Less and less is lost when answers are forbidden.

An end to sorrow leaves a hard door closed;

but grief will ever star-like drive the distance journeyed.

Keeping watch aside, no blacker hand suffers

to shake its sleep-inducing wand.

But take off the fishy scarf, doff the cap and wings,

keep the wand disguised and the cataclysm busy.

Salvatore DIfalco is a Sicilian Canadian poet and author currently residing in Toronto, Canada.