Poem of the week Papilio Multicaudata picks up where I left off last week, with another persona poem. In this poem, the swallowtail butterfly gets to speak.
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Category: Poem of the Week
This week’s poem, Penny Thoughts, is spoken from the point of view of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. She held down the fort while he was off hero-ing.
This week’s poem is one of the nine sections of a longer work, entitled Flood. Each section stands alone. This is part III of the poem.
Portrait of the Bouquet as Portent Who doesn’t like a stunning bouquet of fresh flowers? Their fleeting nature makes them seem more precious. But then there is the slow deterioration as the flowers shrivel and wilt. I feel disloyal, throwing…
What are the earliest memories you have of that place? The house my family lived in on Magee Avenue wasn’t the first place I remember living, but even so the earliest memories have a ghostly, fading-in-and-out quality to them.