Ancient Thera, Present Teacher

Margaret Wheatley (2004)

The wind working its

          way through ancient

                   cracks and ill-fitting doors pestered

                            me all night.

Now it is morning and

          nothing has settled down the

                  wind refuses to clear a space

                              for contemplation. This is stormy

country, lost to fire and sea, buried by meters and

          meters of hard pumice rain and heavy boulders,

                  the volcano falling into its

fiery heart and sea blazing in to fill the steaming

           crater that once was island.

                  Gorgeous culture ended here.

            Island home to painters who knew

                  no restraint who ...

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