["As the sweet-apple"]
By Sappho
Translated By Dan Beachy-Quick
As the sweet-apple reddens on the high branch,
high on the highest branch, that the apple-pickers forgot—
no, they didn’t forget; that apple they could not reach.
Copyright Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick, "As the sweet-apple" from Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho. Copyright © 2023 by Dan Beachy-Quick. Reprinted by permission of Tupelo Press.
Source: Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho (Tupelo Press, 2023)