Solaria

journey to the sun within

© Courtney Covey

Summer of Venus in Leo '23 - Venus Cazimi, Summer '24

"I bid you sing
of Gongyla, Abanthis, taking up
your lyre as (now again) longing
floats around you,
you beauty. For her dress when you
saw it
stirred you. And I rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia

because I prayed
this word:
I want"

- Sappho

"I go to sleep every night
with the book on fire under my
pillow, but you don't know
the degree of heat it takes to press
emeralds, you don't know
why I love the desert, yet
stay in this green place.
What you don't know about me
would fill a fiery book."

- Diane Wakoski