- "Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, atop on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow, forget it not, nay; but got it not, for none could get it till now."

"One Girl" by Sappho is about the marrying and raping of young girls in ancient Greece.

This was a very common practice for a lot of history and it's basically Sappho lamenting about the fact that this is the way that society is and how it is damaging these young girls to no end.

They are seen as nothing more than objects or flowers being trodden in the ground.

They are essentially nothing in society.

I knew that I wanted some form of, like, queer representation in my poetry because that is integral to who I am as a person.

I've also always loved Greek mythology and the history behind it, and Sappho is from ancient Greece and I think it's really cool to pull from that ancient sphere and just perform it as if it's modern.

"One Girl" by Sappho, translated by Dante Gabriel Rosetti.

"Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, atop on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow, forget it not, nay; but got it not, for none could get it till now.

Like the wild hyacinth flower which on the hills is found, which the passing feet of the shepherds forever tear and wound, until the purple blossom is trodden in the ground."

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