Orpheus' Lot
after
Genesis 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt….
Virgil, The Georgics, Bk. IV. Deprived of understanding, he looked back at his Eurydice: there all his labour vanished…
I looked back
Once, no more
A moment passed
Wherein I became a pillar of salt
Tears,
She called to me
But I did not answer –
The nature of a stone is to stand
And the nature of a pillar is silence.