"Witness"

By Paul Campanis

All I can do at this point. I feel the camera just goes on shooting photo
after photo. Vid after vid. Poem after poem.

Two Cultures

Tucked safe between
Two cultures
I peer


Ellada of solid sky
Meriky of stellar steel


One place says to me,
know to act


while the other suggests,
be to see

Incense for Santa Claus

December of the year
of our bicentennial

1976 is a long time ago. Greece and America. Toe to toe. Confusing to
be of two ways of life and thinking, both at the same time. I was a
professor then. My, my.
Oh, incense for Santa Claus. How nice.