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 — 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 — or almost / I seem to me.

Thought:

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

James Baldwin

Christian Molenaar

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