Issue/Publication: CIRCE, AFTER HOURS, BkMk Press, UMKC

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CIRCE, DID YOU?

Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of,did you croon men to your shore?Did you surround sound sailors with silky hiarand nipples?  Oooh, when you stroked themwith syllables, did it matter to your tonguewho they were?  Or were you waiting for one,Odysseus, with his many-skilled fingers?In the ruby-tipped dawn did you hold outfor the master mariner, craving mutual song?Had you dreamed his lure of black hair,called out his snake-charmer's name, long afteryou had previewed that shaggy-dog ending?        
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Sometimes names trick us into dreamsof having.  Odysseus,an undercurrent, a squall.Hurricane Odysseus.Circe, blown away.