and tells the future straight. Hupakoë,
I want to know what Orpheus has to say.
Ready a ship for Lemnos right away.
Hupakoë sailed north, and after weeks
of rowing through hard rain and plugging leaks,
his crew reached Lemnos, but the locals said
they’d come too late, for Orpheus’s head
was down in Lesbos, borne off by Apollo
after a giant serpent tried to swallow
the poet, envying his prescience.