Have you ever seen any of the films of Theo Angelopoulos, Alicia? He's traditionally cited as the greatest filmmaker to come out of Greece, and one of the greatest in the world in the last 30-or-so years. I ask because there are several lines in this piece that remind me of a combination of his two masterpieces, The Traveling Players (the moving, the importance of meals, the impermanence/fluidity of time), and The Hunters (the crossing of the water, the "stashing bones in a closet"). All that's lacking is the mythological reference, but I wonder if that isn't somewhat implicit in the meter, which reminds me a lot of Lattimore's free-hexameter renderings of Homer.
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