Strangers

“Both strangers
and beggars
are from the gods,”
sang Homer:
the rites
of hospitality
in inhospitable
worlds.

(estrangements)

“Strangers
were found
in places
where the presence
of strangers
had previously
been unsuspected:
the process. . .
undid
the familiar.”
Foucault.
We’ve turned
everyone
into strangers
denying
the gods.