An extract from Marc Ladewig's work

Now hear my prayer, Sea God, or should I say
my thought, because it has no plea
or reverence. The gods I honor
though I do not understand them, but you,
Poseidon, Earth-Shaker, god that plagues me,
listen to my words. Gods that harm mankind
are demons, not divinities;
only powerful, a man writ large,
and so the defects all men have made monstrous
in your evil heart that bears such malice now
against my act of self-defense
and desperation blinding Polyphemus.