We saw the horse twice. An even
trade for
Odysseus’s self-sabotage?
Lack of clever follow-through
eradicated
in blockbuster fashion
with a Hollywood ending,
hero and his love
sailing into sunset,
editorial sagacity exemplifies
hubris
in the editing, omissions necessary,
names not spoken, provocation
of Poseidon purged for
Zeus’s Law
The horse was Athena’s idea.
And where is Aeolus,
what lesson lost with the bag?
The year lost languishing in Circe’s bed?
Hermes? Hermes? (absence)
No underworld Anticlea,
no fatal grief
let that sink in
Nausicaa non-existent, no
Phaeacians, no mortal ship,
as if Nobody
never existed
and the gods play fair.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.
Intertextuality is my passion.
Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.
My words are mine, not a robot’s.
MA English literature, CofC
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