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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In the unholy terror of this distance (how cruel the gods!) – yet still I can reach your trembling body, your sweat libating the sheets, your limbs straining against the leather straps – and the muffled noise of your distress floats past my ears like a sad, half-heard wail. In the distance, the pounding of the ocean, fists against a pillowed surface, your entire being encompassed in the echo of the conch
that I clasp to my ear, that I caress like a lover's body. The sea always echoes in a rush of blood. I can almost touch you, past these waves. I would be dead not to hear the rushing of the sea.
