A Candle in the Darkness

an erasure of a passage from Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's Odyssey

by WILL MATHESON

         a
                                       spear
              thrust           --
Random,





Now
                                                           sorrow      ,



                                         the

                  mother

        to

                        Ajax...



                                                determined,
                                  to
                                        curse





                   Zeus