Poem: Investigations into the Death of Socrates

A few months ago I grew somewhat obsessed with the 1977 Canterbury Scene / RIO album, Kew. Rhone. Each track on this album is filled with surreal, erudite, and frequently baffling lyrics, characterized by puns, anagrams, palindromes, and other forms of wordplay. My obsession with this work (I listened to the album roughly once a day for a week or two) set me on a productive path of poetic creation of my one, lined with experimentation in syntax and form, one key result of which is my experimental ekphrastic poem, "Investigations into the Death of Socrates."

You can read the poem in Magpie Zine Issue Three, either as a standalone page (here) or as part of the digital flip-book (here) on pages 30-31.