“It was here,” she told me on the slopes of Mt Elikon,
That the Muses found Hesiod the goatherd and took his flock away
She laughs: “They told him he had to become a poet!”
Then turns away, hiding the smile that lets me know
She was in on the prank
She was in on the prank
(On meeting Calliope [posing as an NYU student of antiquities] on the bus to Delphi)
David Pablo Cohn 