End of Cronos

by A. F. Moritz

My progeny? I ate them.
They tried to murder me.
And then I would have lain here,
and you too—just lain here
“till the end of time” as you like to say.
No. Longer than that and shorter,
no time at all. All would be
an uneroding statue. As it is,
I grabbed them, chewed their bodies in half,
drooled their blood and bile all down
my hairy many-breasted chest
and I’m bursting with health
and I continue and remain
younger every day.

A. F. Moritz

A. F. Moritz’s most recent books of poems are The Garden: A Poem and an Essay (Gordon Hill, 2021), As Far As You Know (House of Anansi, 2020), and The Sparrow: Selected Poems (House of Anansi, 2018), as well as a new edition of poems in Greek translation (Vakxikon, 2021) taken from The Sparrow. He is presently the Poet Laureate of Toronto.