“Semele to Zeus” by Muriel Nelson

A poem by alum Muriel Nelson (poetry, ’96) appears at the The Cortland Review:

Look at your clouds asleep on their backs.
The clouds I envy
blew from this scene
in a storm of shades, of sun-splattered wax,
to reconvene in each windy
guise I knew of you, in every
nebulous form.

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