Laura’s Reviews > Mirror of Love > Status Update

"While life endures we'll love,
and afterwards,
if what they say is true,
I'll be refused a Heaven
crammed with popes,
policemen, fundamentalists,
and burn instead,
quite happily,
with Sappho, Michelangelo,
and you, my love.

I'd burn throughout eternity
with you."

"Darling, do not weep.

Twas just a dream,
a nightmare gathered
on the century's brow,
and if it comes again
I'll hold you tight 'til dawn,
as well as I know how."

"We grew, but in obscurity.

Emily Dickinson described
her lover's breast
as fit for pearls,
her words unread,
her voice unheard
'til she was dead.

Amidst his dust-tanned voice
Walt Whitman dream'd
a new City of Friends,
builded from tender glances
in the hired-hand scrum."

"Nowhere was this more evident
than with the Ladies of Llangollen,
women living openly together
in eccentric isolation,
objects of suspicion,
yet also of fascinated awe.

Amusing in their tantrums,
cherishing the picturesque,
they scattered rosebuds
round their cottage,
banished Wordsworth
when he slighted it in verse.

Without them,
history's diminished"

"Ah, sin.

Was that its name,
which stole a kiss
behind the interlocking
shields of war?

Sin that made
Sappho weep
and write,
'I have not had
one word from her?'

With baby-blood
upon their hands
they saw our love
and named it sin."

enjoying it, but gotta comment that I don't believe it was exactly "tolerance" that allowed some forms of same-sex love among ancient Greeks and Romans. Like it's going through history and it said that "yet this tolerance could not endure the rise of Christianity" and even without getting into how it was pederasty, it was rooted in misogyny and there were Strong Rules to the relations, so not exactly... tolerant.

...shiiit

I get that graphic novels don't often translate the best into kindle editions, but this mostly seems to be some artistic designs of text and then a page of a photograph after a page of poem or sth, so it's kind of sad that not much thought has been given to converting the paperback/hardcover into a kindle version. The text is really small and you can't make it bigger, you can't highlight stuff or take notes either.