Into the wind, she cries

Against the sea

Her love, the waves

Sheds salt like tears

He batters and moans

Yearning for Ithaca

Where currents cold

But familiar

Flock with birds

Of his feather

Unlike her wings

Of long and white

Long fish wiggle

From her hook

But they stay and

Wriggle, and still

She will not let

Him go. He will

Not go, but the

Winds pass by

So she cries into

The wind, to the

Sea, and watches the waves

Sail off into the dawn.


Author's Note: Just a little thing for the Odyssey. Does anyone know how to put space between the stanzas...?