Song of the Mytilenian Women, v3

[RiverNotch]

v3 (v2 is what I posted; v1 is in NaPM 2022, day 23) posted. The quote specifically comes from an Andre Lardinois article called "Lesbian Sappho Revisited", published where I don't quite know; I had read a New Yorker article about Sappho before composing this that quotes Lardinois, so I looked him up specifically for this revision. Hopefully the quote is enough to clarify things. I'm still not sure if the title itself is "enough", though. Any suggestions?

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notes for TqB specifically (thanks again)

-The strident language is intentional.
-"Na" is the way a Byzantine liturgical text I have seems to transcribe the drone underneath much of the liturgy. I imagine that Byzantine liturgies are the closest performances we have to the chorales of Sappho's day that isn't a mere reconstruction, but I'm no scholar.
-"the goddess / who rules the dead" is Persephone. The following stanzas use her to mark the time. Not sure if it's an ancient trick I executed well xD