leviathan

by Karyn Huntting Peters

I am reminded today of things leviathan,
of Perseus and Andromeda,
of Andromeda Unchained and Prometheus Unbound,
of Fire and water, of air and earth
of grains of sand through the illusory hourglass of time.

The Moirae set free from the chains
with trifling effort what had been bound,
just as surely as the leviathan seduction
slowly sweeps the sand and salty foam
in circles about your feet,
just as surely as the muse draws from you
that which you have yearned to release into the universe...