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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO

Build Marriage Raise Sky
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

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