Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

A Hundred Gigantic Eyes

to become rock hard like granite
that I can ‘t do it
even if this body has evolved
breach after breach
then glued together
with crack marks

and if I had a hundred gigantic eyes
to see all creation
rise and eclipse,
still, you’d find
a way to lull me to sleep
with your tattered siren songs
and lean close to draw
a crystal sword, and slash
whispering in rapture’s lexicon
to carry me into the night
torn in stars

as I said I can’t do it
despite a hundred gigantic eyes
to become rock hard like granite
and look deeper
to see your shadows

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Prompt: use/adapt myth, legend, folklore, faith tradition


From
http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteArgosPanoptes.html

"ARGOS PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant of Argolis in the Peloponnese.

Once when Zeus was consorting with the Argive Nymphe Io, his jealous wife Hera appeared on the scene. The god quickly transformed her into a white heifer but the goddess was not deceived and demanded the animal as a gift. She then appointed Argos Panoptes as its guard.

Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god lulled the giant to sleep with his music and slew him with his sword. From this conquest he earned the title Argeiphontes "Slayer of Argos".

Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock."