November 3, 2010April 23, 2018 edited by anders dahlgren

Martine Bellen

Martine Bellen is the author of six collections of poetry including THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER (Copper Canyon Press); FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE MONKEY GOD (Spuyten Duyvil); and TALES OF MURASAKI AND OTHER POEMS (Sun & Moon Press), which won the National Poetry Series Award. Her novella 2X(SQUARED) was published in 2010 by BlazeVOX [books].

Please visit Martine Bellen’s website: www.martinebellen.com

BELLAGIO’S AUGUST MOON

A metallurgist hammers the silver-plated moon
Out of plangent fluting demiurges.

Diamond-pocked black silk scrim of Night’s ebony tresses
Combed around this pearlescent earring—dangling, ringing.

Artisans liturgically chant of the moon’s unfathomable longing
To reunite with its reflection on the lightless lake.
One liquefied glow: Moon and Como.

Poetry in this post: © Martine Bellen
Published with the permission of Martine Bellen

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THE ODYSSEY - HOMER - FROM BOOK I

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.

Translator: Samuel Butler

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