Sunday, September 28, 2008

the equivocal woman


it is hard to tell what she is.

a rock and a pillar. some tubes on her forehead.

lyrical metaphors surround her body

of steel. her hair frozen. her gaze stolen.

her hands stretch nowhere

holding nothing

like brown wings of

a stuffed bird.

she is suspended

in air. shades of brown

earth and off-white air.

it is hard to say what this woman really wanted.

there is only one slipper

under her feet. she looks somewhere else.

i cannot follow.

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