Virus stories

It was not our long enough voyage,
With Posiedons and Laistrygonians

And missing out one-eyed Cyclops,
Who was blind to us in his one eye.

We have returned , in heads heavy
With reddish crown of risky thorns.

If only we had found the one-eyed,
We could tell better Ithaka stories.

( Following C.V. Cavafy’s poem ITHAKA)