“Myth,” by C. Dale Young

Poetry faculty member C. Dale Young was recently featured in Defunct. Read an excerpt of Young’s poem “Myth” below:

Myth

Of course it begins with loneliness…

What did you expect? When my father

tells the story, he starts at the beginning because

this, as he says, is what one does. The goddess

 

Atabey lived alone for almost an eternity.

She created humans and all manner of animals,

but the loneliness remained. The loneliness

sat with her the way close family does.

 

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://defunct.site/issue/9/authors/72/c_dale_young/212/myth