SANTORINI
She slept in the sun
and dreamed that she was not one woman, but three.
The first woman that
she was stood first in a cornfield and then in the woods beneath a
cypress tree and there were deer beside her and wild goats and in
the tree above a lynx or a lion and all these things- cornfield,
tree, animals-she blessed, and they blessed her.
The second woman lay
peaceful and naked in full moonlight.
The third woman stood
at a crossroads at dark of the moon and howling dogs surrounded
her. She walked with the souls of the dead. And blessed
nothing.