Project Daphne
The veins of your foot spread out into the clay,
a lacy skin coated your breasts,
leaves flowed in the branches of your hair,
a wooden torso sucked in your arms and legs:
your mortal soul floated where the tree shone.
The immortal traced even the grain of your timber,
sensing your frightened pulse in the warm boughs,
kissing each as if it were one of your wrists;
the laurel hands that joined to crown
triumphant heads celebrated his passion. . . .
——Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill,Apollo and Daphne
故事来源是奥维德的变形记,带有一些对菲勒斯中心主义的反思。贝尼尼和古诺尔的作品都带来了很大启发