After Constantine Cavafy’s Ithaca
paired, as clasped hands,
girl & woman are acquainted
with such spaces
a white clenching outrage,
a burrowing for warmth,
how joints settle in rest
mythology unfolds
on this rock, brackish night
ringed with fireflies
woman & girl follow water
cook over a blue flame,
pray that the road is long
© 2020, poem and illustration, Candice O’Grady
CANDICE O’GRADY is a writer and poet who cut her teeth as a crime reporter in the Yukon. She lives near the water in Toronto and sometimes tweets from @candiceogrady.
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