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Hello, my name is Catherine B. Krause.
And this is my new chapbook, The Leopard Slug.
And I had a poem that's in this book
And this poem is called Daedalus at Sicility
And it's about the father of Icarus, who built the wings
so that Icarus could fly with him
and Icarus flew too close to the sun
and we all know the story... but this is talking about the later years of Daedalus.
This was in a magazine called Right Hand Pointing
which is a great magazine... and
I'm going to read for you... Daedalus at Sicily.
With crazed wonder,
every day, the old man watches the birds who come close to Apollo's Temple
until the sun grows tired of shining on him. But when the sun is especially hot,
he saunters the beach instead, staring southeast
and sobbing for reasons he no longer understands. Thank you.