This selection is paired with Book 21 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. To end my life with the ending of my life, I record that I returned to him in January. The month doesn’t matter. Ten years is what matters. Ten years of living with strangers. Continue Reading… The post Odyssea appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

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Odyssea

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. In the twelfth century B.C.E., Odysseus sacked Troy and turned his eyes, thoughts and footsteps toward Ithaca and home. But having bested and blinded Polyphemus in the ninth book with a stake of wood Continue Reading… The post Siren’s Lament appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

Siren’s Lament

This selection is paired with Book 12 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. I am the mouth that swallowed your ships and ate your men. They are dead inside of me. You are the only one left, and if you let go of the root you are Continue Reading… The post The Mouth of Charybdis appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

The Mouth of Charybdis

This selection is paired with Book 11 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. If the world is wide and spinning. You could get a glass, highball, lowball, or rocks. Pick it up. Look through it. See your future. Fill it with tequila, the silver. Now take a Continue Reading… The post Instruction Manual: If Feeling Half-Left Behind Like Young Elpenor appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

Instruction Manual: If Feeling Half-Left Behind Like Young Elpenor

This selection is paired with Book 10 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Old windbag, always warning. What harm can come to us while the west wind strums melodies on the zither of the sails? Kings may grow wise wandering the way of the mind, but not Continue Reading… The post The Sailors Mutter After Odysseus Orders Them Not to Open the Sack From Aeolus appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

The Sailors Mutter After Odysseus Orders Them Not to Open the Sack From Aeolus

This selection is paired with Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. The petals of the Lotus plant are sweet like Creten honey or a pink rose of frosting. And it is true, we who suck its bloom have no desire for home. But to say Continue Reading… The post The Lotus Eater Clarifies Her Addiction appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

The Lotus Eater Clarifies Her Addiction

This selection is paired with Book 5 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. Why do I smell hyacinth on the night air— black upon rising black, ruthless thrum my aching elbow slipping from splintered plank this is the end and yet I lash the sea, ever-deep, as Continue Reading… The post Odysseus Alone at Sea appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

Odysseus Alone at Sea

This selection is paired with Book 4 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. After the mining methods advanced, the delta changed colors: yellows, chartreuses, coppers, even sick blues all running down the hills and stagnating in the mud. The change confuses the snow geese—they swoop over the Continue Reading… The post Before Paris Came appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

Before Paris Came

This selection is paired with Book 3 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. This water will never forgive you. You may be able to rise from it but you will never be clean. You will always notice bits of kelp on the pillow of her bed in Continue Reading… The post Penelope Sends a Love Letter appeared first on Nonbinary Review.

Penelope Sends a Love Letter

This selection is paired with Book 2 of The Odyssey by Homer. Get Issue 22 of NonBinary Review from Zoetic Press. my friend and I were talking about our online dating experiences and he asked me what I was looking for in a man and I said, I am waiting on Odysseus, and he couldn’t Continue Reading… The post Waiting on Odysseus appeared first on Nonbinary Review.