The Offering

an erasure of a passage from Emily Wilson's translation

by SOPHIA STOLKEY

 
                    restless

                             in the

                 white
         water.


  old and young,


                         they
                    brought
                                  gifts



                                               hung
               above
                                           by
    a   basket.
                                             They all

prompted
                                                      the sky:

    a                sacrificial



                        crossing
  
this would be.