The Moon and Pleiades - Fragments by Sappho by LiTTLe MACHiNe

The Moon And Pleiades
Fragments by Sappho ( c600 BC)

Tonight I watched
the moon go down
and then the Pleiades,

night and youth
are now half-gone
and here I lie alone,

with his venom
bittersweet,
that loosener of limbs,

Love’s reptile
like a snake
... strikes me down.