"[B]ecause she does not cut away to blowing curtains when what she wants us to feel is the frenzy in her skin."

You have gone ahead and done this justice. You really, really ought to think of submitting these somewhere; it would be a shame and a waste if they stood here forever in a corner of the internet. I have previously read Sappho because everyone does, and I liked what she had to say and I was sorry it had all been used to wrap Ptolemaic mummies and there wasn't more extant; but this I really enjoyed. So there.

Edited to close tag. Whoo.