I wish the world were different, but… here is section 12 of “Mundus et Infans” from People Once Real, 2023

12. SEER

In Euripedes’ dour version,
Artemis, to whom men pray
for permission to kill wild
creatures of her forests, spirits

Iphigenia away to Tauris
where she makes prophecy
of the single thing she knows,
denied by all who seek her:

children will be sacrificed
for advantage, for victory.
What she knows is always so.
It’s almost too easy. Almost.

Hardest are the armored men
who clatter up her stairs.
She knows the harm they will do
and that no words will stop them.