ANGELORUM NATURA · FREE EXCERPT
The Lost City
Published opening
The first stanza is offered here as a free excerpt. The digital reading edition contains the two published stanzas, in a two-page PDF.
On sand that dazzles, so white at daybreak, a man stands alone on the beach.
He cries that civilization has been devoured by Malebolge,
that the enemy has conquered and no blood remains, only wine,
while, among the ruins of a temple, Paris kisses Oenone.
Aeneas watches them from afar, seated upon a wall,
and drinks from a broken bowl, as even now drink the gods.
This is the available published fragment of the poem.