Apex Magazine

The Excavation of Troy

Schliemann digs by day in the winds of Hisarlık,prospecting for myth with digammas and dynamite.His children’s names roll like the seagrounding black ships on burning shores,his wife with the hair...

The Excavation of Troy

Schliemann digs by day in the winds of Hisarlık,prospecting for myth with digammas and dynamite.His children’s names roll like the seagrounding black ships on burning shores,his wife with the hair...

Ψάπφοι Σελάννα

Sappho with violets in your smile,why lie awake counting the Pleiades?Why pace the grey shorewith the sea hissing of lost loverswhen my arms are warmer than the white of waves,the...

Ψάπφοι Σελάννα

Sappho with violets in your smile,why lie awake counting the Pleiades?Why pace the grey shorewith the sea hissing of lost loverswhen my arms are warmer than the white of waves,the...

The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves

1.These gouges where glaciers furrowed toward the seawere smooth-sloped still, ice-muscled, snowbound;these waves, a salt-waste of frozen crests: and wewere hand prints of smoke on ochre walls, the ghostsof birds...

The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves

1.These gouges where glaciers furrowed toward the seawere smooth-sloped still, ice-muscled, snowbound;these waves, a salt-waste of frozen crests: and wewere hand prints of smoke on ochre walls, the ghostsof birds...