Issue 01 Poetry

Asheville Out

By JOHN MATTHIAS

i.m. Charles Olson and Thomas Wolfe

so you’ve only a museum now
and not a college at all
although I understand the buildings still exist near the town
where religion has reclaimed the real estate that
John Rice took for the muses after he scandaled at Rollins
lecturing on the classics in his jock.

Asheville Out
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Kolonos Hippios

By JOHN MATTHIAS

 

The old men who scrambled out at last from behind
some rocks and trees below Poseidon’s great Horse Hill
That they called kolonos hippios and was famous for the rider
whose immortal name these coloni still bore and was
Still guarded by Eumenides of black night and bright day

Had a kind of tabloid curiosity

Kolonos Hippios
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