One Poem by Terry Trowbridge

 

Greek Etymology 

 

The many-headed hydra 

is not called the clepsydra 

though the clepsydra so-called ‘em 

was a hydraulic clock cauldron, 

and the hyrdra perched highly,  

clasped to a rock, and lived dryly.

Terry Trowbridge - Canadian researcher Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, subTerrain, paperplates, Dalhousie Review, untethered, Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Snakeskin Poetry, American Mathematical Monthly, M58, CV2, Brittle Star, Lascaux Review, Carmina,, Progenitor, Muleskinner, Sulphur, Northridge Review, Ex-Puritan, Perceptions, Granfalloon, Literary Hatchet, Calliope, New Note, Confetti, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and more. He is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for grant funding during the polycrisis.