Sublime

An aunt stayed on hoping to curry favor with my mother and named me Hawk, Circe, for my yellow eyes, and the strange, thin sound of my crying.

‘Circe,’ he cried over the water between us. His voice rang the air like struck bronze. ‘My daughter came here.’

Tom transformed her into one of his fictional characters, Esther Jack.

Talk of Prometheus’ punishment scarcely lasted out the moon.

It was the summer of 1929 when Tom first discussed with Perkins his relationship with a married woman, the celebrated scenic designer for the Neighborhood Playhouse, Aline Bernstein.