by Diane Fahey
(Apollo versus Marsyas)
Unable to win,
the god proposes
they turn flute and lyre
upsidedown.
Marsyas loses.
He is inverted,
made Apollo's
opposite again,
and flayed.
The superiority
of one, requires
the raw agony
of the other.
From:
Listening to a far sea
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Last updated January 14, 2019