Ancient Fire

Poems and Translations by Peter Saint-Andre

Invocation: Ancient Fire

Strophe: Sapphic Shards

Deathless Aphrodite on your lavish throne
Come here to me from Crete
Some say...
He seems to me...
Fragments on Eros

Antistrophe: Odes of Horace

I Have Completed a Monument
The Muses' Friend
What Shall a Singer Ask of Apollo?
A Priest of the Muses
You Shun Me
Deep with Snow
The Snows Have Fled
Keep a Tranquil Mind
The Fleeting Years
It's Better to Live
This Aegean Storm
You Who Measured the Sea
Pluck the Day

Epode: Poems

In the Garden
The Measure
Cobalt
Troubadour
Liaison D'Etre
No Exit
On a Visit to the Musée Rodin
Indivisible
Urban Haiku
Drought
Fond Wish
Jesus in Atlantis
Reflections on My Father's Life
Paying for Shade
Looking up at the Sky

Envoi: The Course of the Sun