Circe

 Circe   “a Bloomsday fragment”

 

Image of Bloomsday in Melbourne 2025 by Jody Jane Stitt

 

in fact much excess recess impress

adventure in Joyce

is shed by the script

 

pared back to describe

choice actual exchanges

their first thoughts

 

Bloom’s pas de deux

with Bello his worst fear voiced

best guess realised

 

comes into some relief

hoists hiddens using this method

though no relief for Bloom

 

Stephen’s punch encounter

the drunken English boys

soldiers likewise I’m sure

 

takes on a menace not felt

so palpably in the book

poised with annotation

 

we witness moist eyes averted

the pretentious prat

his complete Shakespeare

 

completely out of his depth

before the noise violent intent

of these guardians of red empire