Persephone's Perspective

A Poem by Raquel Dionísio Abrantes

Persephone’s Perspective

Listen, mother: I asked

Hades to crack

the ground.

I want to bathe in another

light — now I am closer to the moon.

Do not cry, Demeter. Winter

is not as tragic as you were taught

to believe.

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Raquel Dionísio Abrantes is a Portuguese poet. She has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Cinema from Universidade da Beira Interior. Raquel gave a Master Class in Writing of Scripts about Narrative Structure. Her writing has been published by literary journals and magazines.