Falling Wide
Had time been generous,
it might have taken him back to that blemished day—
when the intention was still true,
suitable for poetic treatment.
When he,
unbound from the vices of conventions,
lashed out, maiming friend and foe alike—
a scene not of triumph, but disgrace.
A loathsome business,
to stubbornly defend the verse,
dishonourable though its lines might be
inside an already broken Arthurian circle.
Lefenthea Maria Golgaki
Lefcothea Maria Golgaki (Λευκοθέα Μαρία Γκολγκάκη) comes from Greece where she is a published book author, script writer and playwright. Internationally, she has contributed to four poetry collections published by Scars Publications, The Poet, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. Some of her poems, flash fiction stories and essays have been featured in Bright Flash Literary Review, Flash Fiction North, The Penwood Review, Balestra Magazine, Candlelit Chronicles, Uppagus, Litbreak Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brazen Head, The Daphne Review, The Stray Branch, The Cannon's Mouth, Aphelion, Eskimo Pie, Mediterranean Poetry, Twist & Twain, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Sentinel and Tri-Town Tribune.