Old poems and older poems. The art in here is far more recent - all illustration tiles were made between April 20, 2024 and May 12, 2024.
Some of these poems were published in a chapbook, Eleusinian Mysteries, in 1995, under the pen name Sarah Maddo...
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The tender danger in my eyes seeks your flame; I am afraid to touch you; I fear to look too long, for I would put my own eyes out – There is too much danger in beauty. Where is the destiny in fire, that calls me like a sacrificial moth? My wings of searing soul have become powder. Only the wind makes me hover, at your bed, by your side, over your shoulder... I dare not trust the wind, it breathes too hard; I dare not trust the hot exhalation torn from your mouth during lovemaking; when ashes are blown away, there remains nothing but a dry husk of an exoskeleton, inching feebly to the light. You burn me, my love burns me, I live in constant fear of immolation.
