The Apollo* has Landed
by Peggy Nelson
Nikki Nelson Crabbe
*According to Robert Graves (THE WHITE GODDESS),
Apollo (often known as the sun god) is the male principle, the opposite pole of poetry, which is the lunar, female principle. The “Eagle” that landed on the moon may construed as a male extension of “The Apollo” by which it was borne. A more typical Greek view of Apollo was that he incorporated the female principle by his relationship with his twin sister Artemis and by being the god of music, prophesy and poetry. Nevertheless, the Oracle of Delphi, when communicating directly with Apollo, was always a woman.
Adam Press
Chicago
Copyright 1985 by Peggy Nelson and Nikki Nelson-Crabbe
A Toast to Men
Would that they had the brains that
women lose when they fall in love with them.