Exodus

by Michael Nikoletseas

The angel will come in a
taverna

I know you
he will say
We will be friends

He will kiss you on the mouth

I love you too
you will say
All my life I looked into the moon

All will be done
he will say
All will be done

In one embrace
You enter the night

From: 
Dirfyan Elegy: Poems of Passage (2010)




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Biography:, Nikoletseas Michael M. Professor of Medicine, philosopher, classicist. Born in Androussa, Messinia, Greece in 1943. After graduating from high school in Greece, he came to America where he studied Psychology (B.A. with Honors, 1969-1973), Psychobiology (Rutgers University, M.S., PhD, 1973-1978), postdoctoral studies at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He taught at the School of Medicine of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, and UPR. Visiting professor at the University of Texas at Houston School of Medicine., Parents: Johannes Peter Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ->, Hermann von Helmholtz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) -> Wilhelm Max Wundt (Universität Leipzig) -> Edward B. Titchener (Cornell University) -> John Paul Nafe-> Clarence Graham (Columbia University) -> William S. Verplank, Jr. (Indiana University Bloomington)-> George H. Collier (Rutgers University) -> Michael M. Nikoletseas


Last updated June 15, 2015