Your grease paint is thick and clumsy,
And those eyelashes are too heavy to be your own.
Your nails are red with artificial fervor.
They are all too heavily empty.
But your hand shook ever so little when he kissed you:
That was light enough to be you.
This piece originally appeared in New Strung Bow, a book of poems written by Sarah Lawrence students that was published in 1932.
Perversity
by Grace McCreary ’32 DI
Merely to an Inspiration
by Georgia Mattison ’52
What Is The Open Forum?
by Florence Laws ’30 DI
Mamie's Song Over the Wash Tub
by Florence Laws ’30 DI
"All Kneeling"
by Florence Laws ’30 DI
Seattle
by Florence Fischer ’30 DI
Up and Down
by Elizabeth Hyde ’31 DI
To Be Young
by Elizabeth Hyde ’31 DI
To Mother
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
After Hearing the Music of A String Quartette
by Florence Laws ’30 DI
This Dusky Child
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
She Fed the Quail
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
Pan's Madness
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
Pagan Wonder
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
For H.P.
by Eleanor Green ’30 DI
Exploration
by Dresden Quinn Jones ’98
Dead-Beat
by Dresden Quinn Jones ’98
In Memory of “Rose”
by Dresden Quinn Jones ’98
Bay Window Suicide
by Dresden Quinn Jones ’98
GreenEve
by Dresden Quinn Jones ’98
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Sadie Lou is published by the students of Sarah Lawrence College.
Designed by Gabriel Aronson ’08 and Nevan Scott ’09.