Friday, August 17, 2012

Sappho - A Poem That Rocks Me

An image of Sappho discovered in Pompeii




Without warning

As a whirlwind

swoops on an oak

Love shakes my heart


(LP 47, Barnard 44, as on page 227 of "Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love" by Christine Downing, Continuum, New York, 2996.)

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