Ovid's Heroines by Clare Pollard

Author:Clare Pollard [Clare Pollard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370903
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2014-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

I can sob, at least.

Salt-water streams in rivers to my breast.

It’s all I have, this gush;

my cheeks bloat, ugly with tears.

Is the family curse still with us –

that all women must be raped?

I shan’t go on about that cheating swan;

Jove squatting in pale plumage.

Or how Hippodamia, where sea’s sundered,

was kidnapped by a stranger.

How Helen was stolen across seas

by that man from Mount Ida,

a man welcomed as a guest,

and how all Greece rose to bring her back.

I barely recall that time, yet do –

everything was grief.

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