Tongue Lyre

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Epigraph 1 Tongue 3 Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence by T. C. Mills 4 Tell Me, Muse 5 Odyssey 7 Telemachos 8 Violinist 9 Nestor 11 Lesson 12 Watch for the Blind 14 Wandering Rocks 15 Bluff 18 Proteus 19 The Chorus Rubs on Children’s Sunscreen 21 Nausikaa 22 Cleaning Out the Lyre 23 After the Lotus 24 Cyclops 25 Aiolos and the Bag of Winds 26 Water Ballad 27 Ballyhoo or Bulletin? 29 Circe’s Notes 30 Oracle 31 Ossuary 32 The Sirens 34 Scylla and Charybdis 36 v Oxen of the Sun 37 Standing Still 38 Kalypso 39 The Chorus at the Pit 40 Spoken from the Maze Daedalus Made 41 Rations 42 Disguised, Athena Says . . . 43 Performance 45 Finding Eumaios at the Return 47 Penelope’s Firebird Weft 48 Foyer 49 Chorus: A Museum Is Under Construction 50 Violin Shop 52 The Myth of Philomela 54 Ithaca 56 In the Chapter “Rodin in Love” 57 Rose 58 Tinsel Halo 65 Cosmos 67 Coda 69 vi ...