“Penelope and Circe Consider Contentment” by Mary Lou Buschi (Poetry ’04)
Poetry alumn Mary Lou Buschi was recently featured in Gargoyle Magazine. Read an excerpt and find a link to the full text below:
Penelope and Circe Consider Contentment
Next to the boathouse I take the same photo
I’ve taken for years. It’s the same, C says.
She points her camera straight into the purples
and golds and takes the same photo again too.
C’s kids are in the cabin, unmoved by the close of day.
The puzzle solved, the meat grilled, just the sound of
outboard motors and bodies sluicing into the river.
Everywhere water, a silvery blue, straight to the bottom.
Continue reading here: Mary Lou Buschi | Gargoyle
