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Article: Epsilon.(circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus)(Poem)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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epsilon
perhaps my time of freedom and reverie is up: for last night i had a
dream which was more like a vision: odysseus embraced me the way he
did before going to war; i was tense, my heart constricted, then the
release of distillation, and wet thighs relaxing
but i can't just deliver myself like that: i can't just let myself
go: with a crafty man like odysseus, how can one be his bride
without acquiring a few of his articles of trade, without subjecting
him too to tests? now is my turn:
there is the scar, of course, but a lady cannot ask any passing
stranger to show her his thigh scar in public; telemachos needs a
father, but he ...