POEMS OF DAVID WILEY     

AFFIRMATION

OF 

A SUBMARINE EMPIRE

 

In the clairvoyant's vision of Atlantis

there are pedestals, columns

and fallen entablatures

in a deep sea scene without life.

 

That would be too much

Like a movie property; everyone

knows that movies are fake.

 

If there is a real Atlantis

at the bottom of a real sea

it must look a lot like the castles

that people put in their aquariums

for the pleasure and mystification

of the disbelieving goldfish. 

 

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