She brings the axe and the adze and the augur down to him on the beach. She shows him where the alder and poplar and fir grow tall enough for a mast. She gives him cloth for sails, food and wine for the journey. The tools are her permission, the proof that the order from Olympus has landed and she will not fight it. They are also her grief in a different shape, because to give them is to set the work in motion that will take him from her. He takes them without looking up. The axe rings out across the beach. She returns to the loom and does not sing. Seven years end in the swing of a blade.
Bronze Axe and Carpenter's Tools
Calypso's gift, the only way off her island. She brings them without being asked. He takes them without looking up.