Author: Sophia Stid
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DAPHNE PURSUED BY APOLLO by Sophia Stid
A story told this many times becomes the forest.No beginning, no end, no longer a narrative but the airwe breathe. For centuries, a woman with a namerises from her sleep—becomes a tree—rains back down again into her rest. One myth for how poetry began:a man, reaching. Violence. Myth: Apollo finds the tree inside of a…