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

An excerpt from “Penelope’s Song” by Megan Pinto (poetry ’18), published by The Cortland Review.
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.
[… continue reading “Penelope’s Song” at The Cortland Review.]