Omen of Wandering

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

by WILL MATHESON

 

waiting


a
     t                                   water's edge

             inspired,









reserved



                                                       :



Suddenly
                          foaming

             whitecaps,


           libations
              to
                                   sea-gray eyes
                                          and               the dawn.