The hyacinth girl -neither living, nor dead

Being the immediate continuation of “Still life and still death” -with a small gap of four verses… – “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.” —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my…

The ardent acceptance of Leda – or maybe her rape

 [This is a posthumous post –like every other one published here by Arishej after August 13th, 2016–. Partially it was posted on G+ months ago, and this is an extended version by me, adding a paragraph to the introduction, the work by B. Cellini and the Roman bas-relief.] – The myth of Leda and the…