Shimmer

Shimmer

     So people left,

warred, then spread

their lucre's shimmer,

     and traders

shined their marks

               at Piraeus,

     there, where

plague disembarked

          to bulbo

     greater Attica.

               Not bronzes,

but siphonaptera

transported germs,

          claimed lives,

slaked by fusion

with blood, lymph

exploded, not lead

drachmas that vested

          woven visions

and prophecies.

     So people left,

warred, then spread.

[lyric]