Two New Poems By U.S. Dhuga

I am very glad to offer you two new poems from the Anglo-Indian poet U.S Dhuga this bright, crisp London morning a week before Christmas. Dhuga is a classical philologist, and classical music critic. He received his PhD (2006), MPhil (2005), and MA (2002) in Classics from Columbia University. Professor of Classics at Calvin College, Dhuga is also the founder, publisher, and managing editor of The Battersea Review. His recent book entitled Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy was published through Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in the series "Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches" (Lexington Books, 2011).

Rue Sedaine Insomnia

Up at six and 'us'

Fills the space that sleepless leaves.

Fall's precipitous.

Herringbone

This morning breakers off of Polzeath shore

aren't breaking as they broke before

those hours which we spent ashore alone

and watched the rippled herringbone

the dinghies left behind them

as they went away the way the trouser-hem

of ocean goes away from Polzeath shore

then brings the dinghies back ashore:

the way that I can rest assured

that you will go away once more

and leave me on the shore alone

but come back in an inverse herringbone

so neat and arrowed and intent

as Ocean's made-to-measure argument. 

poems published online with permission of the poet.