“If Sappho Studied Egyptology” by Alicia Cole

Alicia Cole

If Sappho Studied Egyptology

 

winnowing grain from chaff,

Anubis tosses three things aside:

weak hearts, souls weighed

down with sorrow, my lover

who has killed me as surely

as she’s stripped the olive tree

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