Monday, September 17, 2018

TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY


1867; photographer Julia Cameron
Has posed a tired young woman
As a bacchante. Being a bacchante
Apparently requires bare arms
Also, three angry cyclopean starfish
Must roost in your thickwaved hair.
The bacchante looks sad. If Bacchus
Were to appear on the Isle of Wight
He might start his work by finding
A heavyjawed, browneyed ghost
And standing her a drink. Or two.

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