Red Berry Editions ~ California
(Jane Downs and Marie Dern)

Penelope Waiting
By Jane M. Downs
Kensington / Fairfax, California: Red Berry Editions, 2010.
Edition of 50.

6.5 x 10" broadside. Letterpress printed with gold thread attachment.

Penelope waits for wandering Odysseus. This poem appeared in the Lullwater Literary Review.

     I listen for boots upon the stair, his image a vapor
     in my mind. I bloom like nightshade in my chamber of loss,
     my body bound to his absence.

$90