Remembered Version Comments

I like your poem very much. I taught ODYSSEY for almost 20 years to 10th graders, I know it well and something puzzled me in the way you set up the chronology. Odysseus, having disarmed Circe with Hermes's help, is Circe's lover for a year of indulgence. When he finally breaks free (his men are impatient) she detours him to the Underworld. When he swings back to her island they sleep together one more night and he leaves. Your poem makes it sound as if he spent more time with her, resuming their affair. Did you intend that ambiguity? Odysseus is a scoundrel in other Greek writing. ONLY in Homer's Odyssey is he a hero. Not even the ILIAD, where he's a wheeler-dealer. SO I want to preserve his heroism in ODYSSEY.That's why this ambiguity concerns me. This in no way diminishes the cleverness, irony, relevance of your poem.