Status Updates From A Green Equinox

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“I was desperate with grief and anger, for whatever it was going to be, I had wanted to live her death with her. And she had cheated me of what seemed the greatest gift she could make me, my chance to love her, no matter how poor, mad, terrible. It wouldn’t have mattered.”

“All night, When I returned to my own bed, I was unable to sleep a wink because of restlessness and a queer kind of nausea.”

“So, as the room darkened I read her the whole of ‘Sappho to Philaenis’, or nearly the whole of it”