Tonight's Poet Corner: Odysseus's Men

Odysseus's Men
by Belinda Roddie

Lotus bloom
for sailors gloomy
Who needs shrooms
when you've got lotuses?
Eat a petal,
maybe two
Pretend you're home
in your mother's womb

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