Looking at Maps
If they'd had writing in time, Cuba could have been Crete,
watery source of the Minoans and thus the Greeks.
What's lost? A possible us
growing like new foliage out of stony ground, emerging?
Last voice, first, a whole world calling—
awful, inaudible—into the unstoppable loud (roaring!)
hurricane-force sea wind.
Copyright Credit: Elizabeth Arnold, "Looking At Maps" from Life. Copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Arnold. Reprinted by permission of Flood Editions.
Source: Life (Flood Editions, 2014)