Book VI. Antimony
BOOK VI
Antimony
When you go, take your nettles and flowers.
When you go, take the girl with no voice.
When you go, take your long hair and your tower.
You are going; you say it’s your choice.
As you go,
I’ll be watching and waiting.
As you go,
You’ll be walking alone.
As you go, there’s a tale they’re relating.
You are leaving the stories you have known.
—Dr. Mary Crowell, “When You Go”
This night, stay home
Don’t go out alone there’s
Blood on the Moon and the river is running with
Sweet sweet wine.
Stay put—don’t stir
Gods’ sakes don’t run out after her
Blood on the Moon and the sky is ringing.
Sacred this night (the gods are hunting)
Sacred this rite (they are not always kind)
Sacred this fever (blood on the Moon and the sky is ringing)
Burns on forever! Bacchanal!
—Talis Kimberley, “Bacchante”