Crossing the Styx, reversed #3/3

Crossing the Styx, reversed explores living on the edge of, or just outside, metropolitan areas. It juxtaposes the hustle and bustle of the inner city, with the green and calm of the suburban areas. It is a poetic form mashup in which pantoum meets sonnet. The poem Crossing the Styx, reversed It's like crossing the Styx, but then reversed: leave Tantalus and Sisyphus behind, bid farewell to the damned, doomed and cursed, and let Charon ferry you from the grind. Turn west and drive, cross the Seine once, twice, thrice, it's like crossing the Styx, but then reversed: no more crowds, packed metros. No more high-rise. Bid farewell to the damned, doomed and cursed. To escape th...View all