April 5
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	dona stein
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	APOLLO'S HEAD
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	lies in the sea between two stones all three dome shapes crusted with mollusks, the painted eyeballs gone. Lord Apollo's broken torso speared by a metal rod stands before the crowd, while miles away the wrasse and snail inside his missing jaw squeak their syllables, electric static, the kra and sk of Greek. It's dark and cold; claw and stone; what fire have they for changed Apollo whose one desire, reunion with the body, is the thrum and sex of air on fleshly lips? Ears and nose, sun-gilt ringlets-- if set upon the thick neck would still see nothing nor hear nor smell-- other nostrils must scent green salt, behind the empty eyes, behold a flash of fin.
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	about the poem
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	Varied experiences came together in this poem: the months I spent in Greece on land and water between islands; the time in a Muse Workshop offered by the Athens Center on Spetses with A.E. Stallings; the years studying Classical Greek and more recently Modern Greek; and reading about underwater excavation with discoveries of shipwrecks, artifacts, and parts of statues. Imagination then took over.
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	about the poet
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	D.L. Stein (Dona Luongo Stein), a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, has received national and international poetry awards as well as state and local grants. She has been in residence at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. Dona's chapbooks are Children of the Mafiosi, Heavenly Bodies, and Entering the Labyrinth, poems written while living in Greece. Her first full-length collection, Alice in Deutschland, based on an International Artists' Exchange Fellowship residency in Schwandorf, Germany, will be published this summer. Currently, Dona Stein lives in Fort Collins where she produces and hosts The Poetry Show, featuring area poets, on KRFC 88.9FM, every Sunday at 6 p.m., and streamed on the web at www.krfcfm.org.
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