Inside Calypso’s cave, firelight and polished stone, vines heavy with fruit climbing the rock outside. She sits at her loom and she sings. The voice carries beyond the cave and across the island. The loom is part of how she lives in her endless time. When Hermes brings the order from Olympus and Odysseus takes the bronze axe down to the trees to start the raft, she returns to the cave and the loom stands there and she does not sing. The whole story of her loss is in the silence at the loom. No words needed. Penelope’s loom delays. Calypso’s loom mourns.
Calypso's Loom
The goddess's loom in the cedar-smoke cave. She sings at it. When Odysseus leaves to build the raft, she returns to it and the singing stops.