You may forget but
Let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us
From SAPPHO, a translation by Mary Barnard, Shambala
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IF SHE COULD
Sappho would have
reached
out her hand
to meet mine,
and we'd touch palm to palm . . .
And with my other hand,
I would have grasped
and pulled her
into the present.
She and I,
lovers of the beautiful, both . . .
She would have so marvelled
at today's creations. . .
JAL, 1-12-98