Vercingetorix Arverni chief of Celtic blood before your smoking Gallic hilltop fort aflame. A hopeless dream of druid rule restored condemned your kin to Charon’s dark domain. Besieged and trapped when you expelled your weak. Your old. Your women. Wailing children starved. Between a putrid pride and Gaul’s defeat, they died to feed their chieftain’s honour guards. A wicker man—a shameful heart concealed by shining armor faced the legions’ standards. A fine display when you threw down your shield. Now count the Celtic corpses, caged commander. Arverni chief, the fate you earned awaits-- a Roman triumph, chains, and Hades’ gates. Dave Day Read Dave Day's poem to a Fayum mummy: https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/leuropeenne-fayum-mummy-portrait-by-dave-day Dave Day is an attorney from Honolulu, Hawaii, where he lives with his lovely wife and daughter and an incredibly noisy bordoodle. Dave is a numismatist focused on the currency of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet states, and views coinage as a unique way of understanding history. His poem about a Ukrainian opera singer turned soldier, "The Lives and Roles of Vasyl Slipak," is a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee.
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February 2025
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