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1:26am April 22, 2015
thebl00dyl0rd asked: Hey cool poem but artemis was in no way involve in romantic ways with persephone she was only collecting flowers with her. Although if you want to ship them then be my guest!

Oh yes I’m aware of that!. In the poem only (not even in my shipping, as I tend not to ship deities) she’s a lesbian with regrets about having had to marry a man, and Artemis is, in her adulthood after spending many years in Hades’s realm, a distant crush she regrets not having acted on, even if her love would never have been requited. She has other distant crushes too, both in and outside the Greek pantheon (possibly even among mortals/shades), but I don’t really get into that because one example suffices for the most part. Not meant to be Greek legend told precisely as it happened, but as an extended metaphor for delirium and the alienation it brings.

I’ve used pomegranate seeds before in this context, but never elaborated on them, just assumed everyone knew the most common retelling of the legend. But in this case I decided to invent my own retelling, just as, when I came out as a lesbian I invented my own retelling of the Lady of Shallot. Maybe I ought to try and rewrite that one from memory – I rather liked it, despite having written it when I was nineteen and few of my poems from that age have survived the test of time. People told me they’d never seen me write in that style before but that I pulled it if well. Maybe I should see if, from scratch, I could pull it off again.

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