Lockdown: Sorting the Garage

Fishing about 

I come on Mandelstam 

 

Who has insomnia he has read half 

The catalogue of ships in Homer 

 

He wants to set sail 

As love exacts 

 

After all what was Troy without Helen 

Men of Achaea 

 

Some dusty burg 

 

From any now the line to Homer 

Is always open 

from The Missing Months (Faber, 2022), © Lachlan MacKinnon 2022, used by permission of the author and publisher, Faber & Faber Ltd.

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