Photo dramas
& poems

Homecoming / Odyssey, Circe the Enchantress
at Botanical Beach, Vancouver Island BC

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The Odyssey brought Home: Circe the Enchantress with pigs
Newspaper sculpture with thread, crab shell, paint. 13" h


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In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, the inventor of the Trojan Horse, seduces Circe and makes her change his crew back from pig to human form.
              Tell me
            Disclosure

O Tell me, You Sirenes
smooth-talkers
story-tellers
librarians, historians
note-takers, form-fillers
notaries public,
priests;
keepers of secret names,

Tell me, You sweet-voiced intermediaries
You, who orchestrate circumstance
draw circumference of worlds
social workers
(birds of prey)

tell me.

Here I am, bare-breasted, tied to the mast.
Me, who turned the tricks of Circe
who taking sound advice
avoids enchantment
who dreams of changing pigs to men.

With honey, hemp, and wax in the ears
of my fateful companions
by my chosen companions
I am tied.

I am tied to the mast by love & trust
by my own volition. Tied
I can’t jump ship
must listen.

Now
Tell me

What is shame
What is honour.
What’s my name?