Delian Diving
In the Symposium, the Greeks got drunk
on wine they’d watered down. So I order
a wine spritzer to get the proportions
right, while my dinner companion tells me
he learned the lines for the play he was in
by declaiming them to cows that heard him
in the pasture while they ruminated.
I attack my Caesar salad and spear
the single anchovy as if I’m a
Delian diver. One spritzer’s enough.
Bonnie Naradzay copyright 2023
Bonnie Naradzay’s poems have appeared in AGNI, New Letters (Pushcart nomination), RHINO, Kenyon Review online, Tampa Review, Florida Review online, EPOCH, Dappled Things, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Poetry Miscellany, and other places. In 2010 she was awarded the New Orleans MFA program’s poetry prize: a month’s stay in the castle of Ezra Pound’s daughter, where she enjoyed having tea with Mary, hiking the Dolomites, and hearing cuckoos call during mating season. For many years, she has led regular poetry sessions at day shelters for the homeless and also at a retirement center, all in Washington, DC.
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
Good to learn of Barbara’s good work at shelters and centers. Here’s to spritzers!
Fun!
Enjoyable poem!