Honestly, I think this poem is doing that thing where if you're specific enough about sensory detail, it accumulates the impression of meaning around it. I didn't know who the youngest of the Pleiades was when I wrote the last line (just that she was, mythologically, a woman who became a star) but I guess in some versions she was married to Sisyphus, which is retrospectively perfect.
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Honestly, I think this poem is doing that thing where if you're specific enough about sensory detail, it accumulates the impression of meaning around it. I didn't know who the youngest of the Pleiades was when I wrote the last line (just that she was, mythologically, a woman who became a star) but I guess in some versions she was married to Sisyphus, which is retrospectively perfect.