When Eris inscribed 'for the most beautiful' on the Apple of Discord, she started an argument among the gods that caused the Trojan War and led Homer to cry out for Calliope, his muse. Helen, though remembered as the face of that war, was just a bribe for the human judge in a beauty contest - neither muse nor most beautiful. Still, she was beautiful. My muse, not a minor goddess like Homer's but most beautiful to me, allowed herself to be adored in ink. This sonnet cycle is the result.