Day 2 Sappho remixed

Again love, the limb-loosener, rattles me

bittersweet,

irresistible,

a crawling beast.


Look I told you 

When I was being clever

That Nosferatu is a modern love story  

As Sappho writes, is hunger

And as she also wrote


Love is a battlefield 

All the untidy soldiers 

No match for what we care for

That mild word

What makes us live and love on and on 


And my widowed grandmother

Not speaking at the man she’d lost decades before

But singing in a quiver voice at no one

Honestly, I wish I were dead.


“Alas, how terribly we suffer, Sappho.

I really leave you against my will.”

The lynchian red neon

Of heartbreak hotel


By the white rock of Delphi

I knew I’d lost

Everything I care for 

But choose to think of it like this

A temporary madness

Leaping into the dark waters 




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