53 Fragments of Photos

Adi Gandhi

 

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I paired Sappho’s fragments with fragments of pictures I took (which is to say, I cropped them). I’m not really sure why this felt right to me.

 

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“greener than grass
I am and dead”

 

 

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“in my dripping (pain)”

 

 

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“invisible too in Hades’ house
you will go your way among dim shapes. Having been breathed out.”

 

 

     

 

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“sweet mother I cannot work the loom
I am broken with longing for a boy by slender Aphrodite”

 

 

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“no, not forgot: were unable to reach”

 

 

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“do I still yearn for my virginity?”

 

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