"relinquish all your gear"
McHugh, Huchel, Conroy, Guillén, H.D.
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Heather McHugh:
Peter Huchel (tr. from German by Martyn Crucefix):
Carol Conroy:
Nicolás Guillén (tr. from Spanish by Aaron Coleman):
H.D.:
Orion Dead speaks so well of the sorrow and ensuing rage of the death of the only man who attracted her attention.
Her rage, stemming either from her brother Apollo sending a scorpion to kill him for fear that Artemis would forego her virginity or that she had been tricked into killing him, is aptly described here as she has become entirely disassociated with the forest and the hunt, more apt to destroy them so as not to be reminded of Orion than to merely leave them behind.
And in her wish to destroy her world she wishes to destroy her very existence.