And so I followed you
to the dome of the capitol
signed in as Orpheus
and entered Hell
found you on the marble steps
rising to meet me
as you wished
and eye-to-eye I met my fate
the wild intelligence
the raging heart
the fatal sentence of desire
the madness beneath
the surface of the earth
and I looked back
at who I used to be.
—with lines from Edward Hirsch's The Hades Sonnets
