Minotaurocracy

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Minotaurocracy

-for Minneapolis

Vincent Hostak

11 January 2026

If we were to begin again,
I want to believe
our tragedies would remain
fantastic episodes in books,
our lives’ favoring mercies over martyrdom

Our young women, our young men
would live as elders,
know successions of stories,
lift spoons up to the mouths of babes
never fed in tribute to a half-hoofed king

If we were to begin again,
I want to believe
we’d make a human convoy
marching until our ankles bled
holding her safely to the labyrinth’s end

Published by Vincent Hostak

I am a father, writer, and podcaster living along the Front Range, Colorado. My poems appear in The Dewdrop, Sonder Midwest, Tejascovido, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Texas Poetry Assignment; and in print anthologies The Senior Class: 100 Poets on Aging (Lamar University Press), Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief, and Moonstone Arts' 30th Annual Poetry Ink. I produce The Phantom Script (a poetry podcast). https://shows.acast.com/the-phantom-script

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