Barry D Mills

Eurydice Ombra Mai Fu Barry D Mills

The title poem is a meditation on the enduring theme of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Subsequent poems address: The coming of self awareness as in Snipe Hunt Placebo Dilemma The burden of suffering a muse as in Stone Soup and The experience of crossing over to the farewell period of life as in Continental Divide. ------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from In the Lee of Eurydice's Gaze Apogee Yet, by what widening ripples' reach marks this silent witness' progress? And, how does that, upon which so much depends, find its own way? So, no longer beheld, even in profile, the searching face of one, once known in full. So, no longer beheld, save as the slender farewell phase of a lingering moon; Whose furrow-wake pale glow, turning aspect, pauses, Numinous in reflected affection, before hastening in her pilgrim's hearth trace home. ------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from How Much Trouble for a Bird I find what has brought me here. His final, best, gift: That I did not so much Bring him to this place For his solitary solace, As he has brought me To his, for mine.