<DIV><p>"Unforgettable."?Michael Ondaatje</p><p><BR>These rhythmic poems negotiate the collisions between past, present, and future?and outline a universal mythology of the self. Exploring the overlapping arrangements of time and memory, life and death, Sikelianos skillfully draws lines from everyday minutiae towards an interior world where we are ?carrying our own living ghost inside.”<BR><BR><B>"Comes to me"</B></p><p><I>the future comes to me<BR>with a horrifying screech<BR>then it comes to me softly<BR>like a weeping cloud<BR>and it comes to me like<BR>a fish, glass-eyed, flopping<BR>and it comes to erotically<BR>meanly& sharp<BR>it comes to me cashed out rolling<BR>electronically</I></p><p><I>in my future life I was<BR>a cowboy, killed<BR>in a bar fight</I></p><p><I>a flamingo in snow</I></p><p><B>Eleni Sikelianos</B> is the author of six books of poetry, including <I>The California Poem</I>, a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year. She directs the University of Denver's Creative Writing program.</p><BR></DIV>