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—57 Modernism —For Amy England And “I” is a conjecture, simile that’s become science: calyx torn down both sides, the only decipherable word among five Bird nest supplied by paraphrase, some spurious other, much restored: talents are money, two mutilated words hence the extension beyond lexicography Death as a gift, a ruin of paper for the opulence of Gyges: “calamitous” perhaps sounds like opening the right-hand half You have taken a cricket by the wing, mixed thighs and courtly love: papyrus burned at the top a black-butted fellow, badly damaged The meaning is obscene, Eros’s red balls earlier than arrows: they vomited their mass of pride from a pottery shard The same papyrus gives “ear dripping blood” This poem is composed entirely of phrases from Guy Davenport’s notes for his volume of translations 7 Greeks. They have been rather drastically selected, condensed, and rearranged, but only one word has been altered. shepherd text-2.indd 57 11/22/10 2:07 PM ...

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