The Brittle Gods

<p>The Brittle Gods includes 38 poems celebrating collisions – sometimes jarring - of ancient with modern Greece. For example in poem “Dionysos in Aulis”</p><p> </p><p>... holding the wheel very tight staring</p><p>straight down the road remembering another time</p><p>when sails hung loose days after weeks</p><p>impatient generals sharing nods.</p><p>                                                    We did</p><p>what we had to then slapped our shields</p><p>on swaying hulls for luck sails snapping like dogs</p><p>Agamemnon remembers the sacrifice he had to make [killing his daughter] so his fleet could sail against Troy.</p>