This poem is taken from Stand 222, 17(2) May - June 2019.

Andrew Neilson Two Poems
Hypatia and the Zealots

You descend among us, we close-packed men,
          so we may seek you out
and cast our vote, each with an ostrakon,
for in tiles and shells we shall brook no doubt,
          even unto tearing
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