Inspired by Lucas Cranach’s The Judgement of Paris, our poet liberates the word’s syllables.
She exhibits herself
to us with a goddess’s instinctive
certitude. She holds her
wrists back, servile and opaque, as
if submitting herself to man-
acles. Her eyes engage
Easy to read “servitude” for “certitude”. All under the sign of “as if”.
The wicked enjambement is courtesy Scott Hightower Natural Trouble.
And so for day 1140
26.01.2010