Occasional Impressions

Gemini 3

Yorvik

These were our fathers -
these persons recreated here in model form.
Your name is Viking, as is mine;
as was my father's and was his,
back up the flight of time
to those days
when this floor was earth
this stratum the living city’s street.

There in that hut are you and I -
daughter and father -
speaking a foreign tongue
smelling these foul smells
eating this pig, that fish
worshipping the old gods.

Here in this gate we walked
you played
I worked
we lived and sang and cried and died
sleeping till this day, we come again.

Come -
back to the station - it’s time
to catch our train.

jdy

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