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What the Desert Said

by Kimberly Meyer
Issue #118
Fall 2012
At the beginning of the third book of the Odyssey, Telemachus’ ship pulls into the harbor of sandy Pylos, as the morning light burnishes the sea. Homer tells us: The sun rose from the still, beautiful water Into the bronze...

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