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“The Invitation I will send the boy to the market to the monger at the end of the row for sweet shrimp and three fish, the freshest, I will say, with their eyes still clear, tell him to go to the wine shop, bring an amphora of Cleoboulos’s best buy herbs of every kind the most sweetly scented while I idle through the day awaiting you.” — Megan Whalen Turner
The Invitation
I will send the boy to the market
to the monger at the end of the row
for sweet shrimp and three fish, the freshest,
I will say, with their eyes still clear,
tell him to go
to the wine shop, bring an amphora
of Cleoboulos’s best
buy herbs of every kind
the most sweetly scented
while I idle through the day
awaiting you.