Waiting for My History
Estill Pollock
Prior to this poem, I made another here
but fire took it
It was a poem about Prometheus, fennel stalk
stuffed with stolen flame, the one
Zeus sniffed out too late
It was Prometheus, and liquid heat
beaten into breastplate bronze
tight against his body
My word’s the only proof of time before now
Of the sly theft, and this new place without gods
The poem fire took
Estill Pollock's publications include Constructing the Human (Poetry Salzburg) and the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy (Cinnamon Press, Wales). His poetry collections in the series Cartographic Projections of a Sphere—Entropy, Time Signatures, Ark, Heathen Anthems and Alias—are published by Broadstone Books. The e-chapbooks And Then and Working Title are published by Mudlark.