In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Julian K. Jarboe's "As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Altar of Love."
I am undressed but it won’t matter soon enough, and besides, this era has retained its wise and founded fear of nude women appearing beside bodies of water, even ones as ancient and ugly as myself. I am a known omen not to be disturbed.
Memories have permanence, tattooed anchors.
