Political gniwolP

Written By Laurence Musgrove

Donald Mace Williams

October 27, 2020

The early Greeks wrote boustrophedon, meaning

.dne hcae ta gninrut ,gniwolp nexo ekil

We plow on, right-, then left-ward leaning,

!dnefrof sdog ehT ?niw ew fi tahw ,kniht dna

 

                                 

Donald Mace Williams is a native Texan and a retired newspaper writer and editor. One of his five books is Wolfe and Other Poems. He has done metrical translations (unpublished as yet) of  Beowulf and of 100 Rilke poems. He lives, solitarily, in Canyon. 

Laurence Musgrove
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