sappho-31

September 5, 2024

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He seems to me equal to gods that man / who opposite you / sits and listens close / to your sweet speaking

and lovely laughing โ€” oh it / puts the heart in my chest on wings / for when I look at you, a moment, then no speaking / is left in me

no: tongue breaks, and thin / fire is racing under skin / and in eyes no sight and drumming / fills ears

and cold sweat holds me and shaking / grips me all, greener than grass / I am and dead โ€” or almost / I seem to me.

Thought:

“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”

Marguerite Duras

Christian Molenaar

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