I sink as I sail magnificently

by Michael Nikoletseas

I sink as I sail magnificently
The sky below me black
cribriform
supine chest plates of Chalkis
copper
float by
hugging
Macedonian youths
in Eurotas’ reeds
I sink as I sail magnificently

From: 
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War (2011)




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Biography:, Nikoletseas Michael M. Professor of Medicine, philosopher, classicist. Born in Androussa, Messinia, Greece in 1943. After graduating from high school in Greece, he came to America where he studied Psychology (B.A. with Honors, 1969-1973), Psychobiology (Rutgers University, M.S., PhD, 1973-1978), postdoctoral studies at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He taught at the School of Medicine of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, and UPR. Visiting professor at the University of Texas at Houston School of Medicine., Parents: Johannes Peter Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ->, Hermann von Helmholtz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) -> Wilhelm Max Wundt (Universität Leipzig) -> Edward B. Titchener (Cornell University) -> John Paul Nafe-> Clarence Graham (Columbia University) -> William S. Verplank, Jr. (Indiana University Bloomington)-> George H. Collier (Rutgers University) -> Michael M. Nikoletseas


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