I don’t recall when you arrived.Unusual, I suppose, for a goddessof war - I would have bet ontrumpets and fanfare, butthere was none of that,just an olive tree and a note.You offered an invitation. For once,there was no strategy.Instead, possibilities - fieldsand fields and fieldswashed in Adriatic sunlight.And over there,a shimmer of you - bow raisedand drawn.
In The Odyssey, the character Mentor was asked to look after a boy while the boy’s father went to war. The father was away for almost 20 years. Mentor and the boy — now a young man — went to find him. Athena, the goddess of war, would sometimes disguise herself as Mentor to guide the son.
David Laverty is a poet from Canada. Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet from Ireland. They…
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