Regrets
its idyllic charm
lures spellbound landseekers
with lush flora
and trickling creeks
like a siren enchants sailors,
her long hair
distracting
with her
naked beauty
the maelstrom
churning
beyond
then when beauty transforms
as Scylla
and Charybdis
daughters who sought what wasn’t theirs
the ugly truth springs forth:
a father regrets a farm
there is such a thing
as cursed land
where the ghosts of soldiers
still battle
just as those
who still dwell there
Common Threads 