Traveling Companion

"It was here" she told me on the slopes of Mt Elikon,

That the Muses found Hesiod the goatherd and took his flock away

She laughs: "They told him he had to become a poet!"

Then turns away, hiding the smile that lets me know

She was in on the prank

(On meeting Calliope [posing as an NYC student of antiquities] on the bus to Delphi)