The Shed

The Shed

prose/poetry

Letter to Persephone

from "Artemis Speaks" collection, published 1999

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Charissa Drengsen
Aug 30, 2024
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Demeter mourning Persephone by Evelyn de Morgan, 1906

I've let the garden go again.  The corn has curled up its long leaves, gone beige and husky dry.  The tomatoes, robbed of their fruit, sulk into the hard soil.

You're with him again my daughter.  And in that offhandedly brutal way of his he will force another seed between your pliant lips.  Of course y…

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