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Wednesday 18 February 2015

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN INSPIRED BY LUCRETIA

The invitation to speak
Is not felt

Hands
Curling in on themselves
And Up

The dagger
The past
Fiction
Myth

Returning from the moment
Stabbed and slicked
On to the canvas

I have no
Place here

In the stillness
Of this moment

Jewelry
Hanging loose

Clothing
Already ripped

Dagger
Not fallen

Eyes
Refusing to break

Their hold
On fate

The subject
Not written in
To the title

The woman thinks

I hear nothing


Joe Howse

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