Sapphic Songs Quotes

“Day draws towards twilight:
I dream idly,
Heavy with longings.”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“still find you in all bliss
And know your lips on every mouth I kiss.”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“She glimmers with light
Like a moon.
[…]
She is the moon's ghost
Phantom and lost”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“Because we reached across the chasm
Self to self, dared
Touch
Dared move
Woman to woman
A new moon rises.”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“Once we have left the womb
Are we not all
Outsiders?”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“Does earth
Drowse with fullness or the pull of sleep?
Even girls in the orchard move slowly.”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty

“Today, and each dawn, Elsa lights a candle and burns incense before the ivory porcelain statue of Kwan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Wisdom and Compassion. She builds a fire in the stone fireplace beneath Ella Young's enchanting face, and sits in the curved chair. The cat, Lady Tiki, purrs on her lap. They gaze out the window at the "dancing dryads," madrone, bay laurel, live oak. Rose-lipped fuschias nod at them through the glass. Elsa's beautiful bright eyes watch the flames. She begins to write.

Abigail Hemstreet
San Anselmo, CA
April 1982”
― Elsa Gidlow, Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty