The Poems of Exile Home & house for a silk umbrella

for a silk umbrella

and the largely ignored female hermit

overlooked-has lost all purpose

From transgressions to successions

The farmhouse was meant to be Emily's fresh start

The Poems of Exile Home & house for a silk umbrellaIn the year A. D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile permanently, as it turned out at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the