The Caryatid

Across all of Athens, we used to stand

Six sisters sculpted from alabastrine marble

and tinged with gold

bearing gifts to Artemis

To our West bloomed Athena’s favour

a tree drooping with olives

next to the altars of Erechtheus’s kin

where Athena’s snake roamed

Saltwater sprung where Poseidon’s trident struck

flanked by the bones of Athen’s founding kings

and to the East stood Athena Polias

tall and proud, protectress of all in the city

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