Sappho’s Journal

Sappho’s Journal

 

 

Sappho, walking on her island beach, 

pauses by a broken amphora: 

With one foot, she nudges the terra cotta and black jar, 

its painted chariot, charioteer and horses: 

The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. 

Sappho, about 30 years old, 

her hair braided around her head, 

naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, 

gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early morning yellow.

 

 

 

Villa Poseidon, Mytilene

642 B.C.

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