Pandora

Pandora's Box

the greek myths hold

that all the miseries,

out of the folly of pandora

were thus brought upon humans

epimetheus

ensnared by the god’s traps

unheeded prometheus’ counsel

land of all-time spring

daffodils, hibiscuses, daisies—

all growing, not in flower farms

rivers flowing with milk and nectar

oak trees filled with acorns

mountain strawberries

all these, good pilgrim,

lost

but for every trouble,

the myth says,

there is hope

to soothe human woes