1.
Penelope
is a spider
that spins
a web
the web is Penelope’s
Odyssey
2.
Penelope is
always
seated
3.
Odysseus is abstract
Penelope is concrete
the web is abstract
and concrete
4.
Penelope marries Homer
Odysseus is left watching
Adilia Lopes (born 1960) Potugal
Translated by Rachel Rothenberg
Source: A repertoire of contemporary Portuguese poetry edited by Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2008
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