mood miscellanea

SAPPHO

SHE WAS BEAUTY

AND ALL THAT IS BEAUTY WAS IN HER.

HER NAME MEANT LOVE ON THE ISLE OF LESBOS.

BUT SHE WAS HAUGHTY

AND NONE WHO WOOED COULD WIN HER

THOUGH MAIDENS WHO LOVED HER WEPT ON THE ISLE OF LESBOS.

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JAN FRASER

UNANSWERED

HANDS, TAUT WITH LONGING,

THAT REACH, AND TOUCH,

FINALLY,

THE NUMB COLD OF MARBLE,

MAY WAIT, DUMBLY,

FOR THE DEADLY SYMPATHY

OF FLAME

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OR CURL, SECRET,

HIDING THEIR EMPTINESS.

·

AGATHA MATHYS

14

REVERSAL

RUNNING, CHASING,

WITH A FRANTIC DASH

STUMBLING, FALLING,

UP AGAIN.

I, THE LOVING

MUST PURSUE,

ALL THROUGH LIFE,

NOW IT'S YOU.

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AUDREY KERN