The Ballad of the Painter Antonio Ligabue
He wags his flat broad tongue at trilling birds.He halloos them and smiles through ten teeth.He swings a big square mirror from his neck.He holds it up and licks the image there.
D'Aulaires on My Grandmother's Deck
In D'Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, Zeus was always marrying different nymphs, that's what it said, married, no mention of abduct or rape or even forcible kiss. I wanted to marry Zeus. Also cow-stealing Hermes, also Theseus who refused the brigand on
