“Penelope’s Song” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18)

Penelope’s Song

Somewhere, Odysseus dips
            his cracked lips
into the sea. A cloud sinks.
            The porpoise
cannot taste. And tonight the tide
            runs low in the estuary
where she waits, where little fish
            dry out on the banks. This
is a moon song, for when
            the moon is gone: Odysseus
lighting the night with a candle,
            Odysseus,
loving his boat as he loves the sea.

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