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“The Atlantean Road by Stewart Stafford A snake of stones beneath the waters Soldiers march past spectral daughters Phantom travellers To work or home Atlantean lives replay in foam The water drowned out extinct times Of joy and war Of love and crime The divers rapt by sound immemorial Echoes entombed Sweet voices choral The flame of Erasmus and barking sounds Of canine guards and strangers found The road roused from silent sleep To tell explorers how ancients weep © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.” — Stewart Stafford
The Atlantean Road by Stewart Stafford
A snake of stones
beneath the waters
Soldiers march
past spectral daughters
Phantom travellers
To work or home
Atlantean lives
replay in foam
The water drowned
out extinct times
Of joy and war
Of love and crime
The divers rapt
by sound immemorial
Echoes entombed
Sweet voices choral
The flame of Erasmus
and barking sounds
Of canine guards
and strangers found
The road roused
from silent sleep
To tell explorers
how ancients weep
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.