Published in Overland Issue 235 Winter 2019 Uncategorized Sapphic legacy Siobhan Hodge Marble braced – you are fed on the offerings loved by women. Tender sheets, beloved breast and curving hip. Aphrodite’s call was yours to issue. You are softness, pleasure and the push. You take all that we still give. Dark eye and proud brow. Took the name and made it foreign, home and whole. To make love as the women from Lesbia used to mean a very different thing. You took that too and made crushed violets of sweet longing. I can only roll apples for a glance – we were made for each other – time apart. Maybe you would have cursed my eyes, damned my step and broken my every tooth in your open, pulping mouth as you did those girls before. Image: Thomas Kelley on Unsplash Read the rest of Overland 235 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Siobhan Hodge Siobhan Hodge has a PhD in English. She won the 2017 Kalang Eco-Poetry Award and 2015 Patricia Hackett Award. Her poetry and critical work has been published and translated widely. Her new chapbook, Justice for Romeo, is available through Cordite Books. More by Siobhan Hodge Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 30 January 202330 January 2023 History On class as a product of struggle Jared Davidson An understanding of class as a relationship and a process, and the expanded terrain of class struggle that comes with it, has the potential to unearth or reappraise key events and narratives in our colonial pasts. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 January 2023 Cartoons In attacking us, they bring us together Sam Wallman 'What these bosses don't understand is that in attacking us, they bring us together.' (Paddy Crumlin, Maritime Union of Australia, Svitzer Rally November 2022)