In Order to Be Free

an erasure of a passage from Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey

by SOPHIA STOLKEY

I went back to my

                                                      place

behind


                    the breeze.




My friends


               in                            truth
                                      must avoid



   me

to      free
            me.



             Soon
                          the
                    wind died down.


                   They sat     and made

                                          my hands
                                                      sunlight.