By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
APHRODITE’S ROCK
Lovers
still visit Aphrodite’s Rock
Swim
three times around
the birthplace of Venus
in hopes they might return
holding the sand of lifetimes
cupped between hands
I come to witness
the marriage of continents
undulating beneath the vernix of foam
Africa and EuroAsia
thrusting the ancient shell
closer to heaven