ACHERON

"Acheron" from CHTHONIC: a COLORING book by Troy Kehm-Goins.

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but a kind of yearning has hold of me—to die
and to look upon the dewy lotus banks
of Acheron

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Anne Carson,
as found in If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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a kind of longing has seized me to die
and see the dewy banks of Acheron
covered in lotus...

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Philip Freeman,
as found in Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

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but a longing seizes me to die
and see the dewy
lotus banks of the Aheron

—from poetry fragment #95 by Sappho
translated by Willis Barnstone,
as found in The Complete Poems of Sappho
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the egg sac of existence
the eye of the stream
the dream, O, the dream

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Detail of "The Caress of Sorrow (Acheron)" by Troy's Work Table. Sidewalk chalk, chalk paint, charcoal on chalkboard.