Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024
She can be found
in two places
in the index
in Edith Hamilton’s
Mythology: under
Daphne––where
she belongs––
and under Apollo,
where she struggled
not to be. There,
it reads: Apollo,
Daphne loved
by––as if. As
if overtaking
could be
confused
with love, as
if a woman
didn’t have
to choose
between being
Daphne, by
Apollo stolen,
or being––
instead––
a tree be-
yond him.
Andrea Cohen’s most recent poetry collections are Everything and Nightshade; a new collection, The Sorrow Apartments, is forthcoming. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA.
