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Poem of the Week: “Circe” by Michael Longley

Originally published in Michael Longley’s debut collection, No Continuing City (1969), “Circe” meditates on Homer’s Odyssey. The poem reflects on Circe’s relationship to the shipwrecked sailors who crashed into the shores of her island in a contemporary context. The poem reads, “At first in rock pools I become their wife / Under the dunes at last they lie…