Madness is mythic

Sanity soft

Echo died

When

Narcissus drowned

The Barbarously

Delphic

Sylvia

white flour

dove

into

her/his

own pool

of self

I hurled

my voice

through

the undertow

It was her last

disappointment

I laughed

and lived

A lifetime later

Narcissus

washed up

on Calypso's shores

Echo the former

stirred Odysseus

When he sailed home

She remained Penelope