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Artemis Revealed at Gargaphië

Updated: 2 days ago

by Julie Elise Landry


Editor's Note: Due to the formatting of this poem, it is best viewed on desktop.

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after Anne Carson


Nakedly happy

freed from chiton and cuirass


my nymphs quiet

in sunlight


bathing


then


screaming—


the specialized female function

our intense pleasures and pains


our voices and bodies

exposed—


I cannot bear it

the gender of our sound bared

echoing

not only in my forest


but in his unwelcome

witness


too much of us surrendered

to his interpretation


and I know too

the ribs of the gods


the names

they aim at me


“she who delights in shafts” indeed


all I want—


for gods and men to say nothing

that swells these girls


their inadequate

screams


I will not be blamed for dogs

for appetites the man brought

with him


besides

when Actaeon screams


he knows us

best 



 


Julie Elise Landry writes and edits things—poems, grants, novels, press releases. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in diode poetry journal, A-minor Magazine, Backchannels Journal, HOOT Review, and more. She holds an MA in English from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and she is pursuing an MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans. In 2023, she received an Honorable Mention for UNO’s Vassar Miller Poetry Award. Julie grew up in New Orleans, and she serves as an Associate Poetry Editor of Bayou Magazine.

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