I push the stone upward, laboring, head down, elbows locked, imploring every sinew that I have to not relent, but near the top I always falter, spent, and the boulder rolls back down the slope. Then I begin again, flushed with hope, undaunted by the challenge of this task. Why do I continue, one might […]
John Manesis
John Manesis, a retired physician, has had five poetry collections published. “In This Infernal Place” first appeared in his book, Consider, If You Will, a collection of sonnets in which he reexamines classic myths, children’s stories, and nursery rhymes, casting them in different lights and variant points of view.