The Home

Home is a place that can fail to remain itself.

This name counts verified appearances. It does not grade the idea. Corpus size and editorial depth are different.

Ithaca is under siege. Uruk’s walls outlast a king’s panic. Tomis is not home and does not become home because a poet is talented. Compostela is a destination that is someone else’s home.

After each road, ask: was home still home?

A hall full of suitors.
The Odyssey
Walls as what can be shown.
Gilgamesh
Rome as a letter’s address.
Ovid at Tomis
The house left as the point, not a hall to win back.
The Going Forth
Recognition: shared carpentry, not a face.
The Bed