For  Muriel....

Ah a Holy sport

are you headed to Alexandria port

with a cargo of wine and olives

or just the rowers themselves

wanting to see what you see every day

giving scholars reason to open

their bodies, minds strength

I grew up here centuries ago

reading and rowing

I knew nothing of Homer

until Susan Connolly, a trained classicist

guided me with the Fagel’s translation

she was cruelly taken by the hated cancer

before she travelled to Greece and Italy

I like to think she is there now

during the Golden Age

perhaps the children you teach

will make it there, crying at the richness

Susan’s quest

perhaps meeting Helen

First Among Women

I must rest my mind

I cannot write longer

just to say as you bless Rockland Harbor

you will be blessed by Olympus

and with the love of so many