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Today's poem is "Argos, Odysseus' Dog"

from Able Muse

A.E. Stallings is an American poet, critic, and translator who lives in Greece. Her most recent volume of poems is Like (FSG), and recent verse translations include Hesiod's Works and Days with Penguin Classics, and an illustrated Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice with Paul Dry Books.

Other poems by A.E. Stallings in Verse Daily:
May 13, 2012:   "Deus Ex Machina" "Because we were good at entanglements, but not..."
September 20, 2008:   from "The Dance of Atoms" (Lucretius) "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
January 15, 2008:   "An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro" "It is not the curled-up bones, nor even the grave..."
May 3, 2006:   "Nettles" " March: pinked leaflets sprout..."
April 4, 2006:   "Palinurus" " Sleep is a god, attending when he wills..."
April 14, 2005:  "On the Nearest pass of Mars in 60,000 Years" ""War or Strife—yes, you were always painted..."
February 8, 2005:  "Ultrasound" "What butterfly..."
December 27, 2004:  "The Compost Heap" "It waxed with autumn, when the leaves..."
December 5, 2004:  "Explaining an Affinity for Bats" "That they are only glimpsed in silhouette..."
April 14, 2004:  "Lilith" "In the beginning, everything was..."
October 31, 2003:  "A Bone to Pick with You" "It's time to take the skeleton out of the closet..."
December 9, 2002:  Eurydice Reveals Her Strength "Dying is the easy part...."
November 27, 2002:  The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles by "Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove..."

Books by A. E. Stallings:

Other poems on the web by A.E. Stallings:
Fifty-seven poems
"Empathy"
Eleven poems
Nine poems

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