Once, in Crete

Head of a woman from the Palace of Minos, Knossos, Late Minoan I, 1500 BC

Pottery Shards

Scattered in the dirt

Only time separates me

From the Minoan Woman

Dropping it upon hearing

Of the death of her lover

At the hands of the

Iniquitous Sea Peoples

Pick up a piece

Cut; My thumb bleeds

Like her heart