I hadn't set out to write an Odyssey poem. Originally, I used "horse-like" rather than "ship-like." I only changed it to "ship-like" when I finally decided to use Penelope as a generic name in the ending.
Finally, the last thing I did to the poem was title it "Odysseus" so that it all came together thematically. The title is always the last thing to come. Only then do you have a greater understanding of what just happened (how the poem came into being).
Jeff Tatay was born and raised in Mishawaka, IN, but now lives in the West where he is an MFA in Creative Writing candidate and an Environment and Natural Resource candidate at University of Wyoming. His writing and photography are inspired by the biological and natural world and his investigation of environment and place. His poetry has appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Clare Literary Journal, Indigo Rising Magazine, Obsession Literary Magazine, Wyoming Public Media's Spoken Words, Tract/Trace: An Investigative Journal and other publications.
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Yes it takes a turn at the end back to the cliché, back to the rather familiar.
I hadn't set out to write an Odyssey poem. Originally, I used "horse-like" rather than "ship-like." I only changed it to "ship-like" when I finally decided to use Penelope as a generic name in the ending.
Finally, the last thing I did to the poem was title it "Odysseus" so that it all came together thematically. The title is always the last thing to come. Only then do you have a greater understanding of what just happened (how the poem came into being).
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