Photorealism by Andrew W. Szilvasy
There is this photo
of Marianne Moore
beside
a pony in Greenwich Village
that like a
nun fingering beads I thumb
to at odd hours
to contemplate her
wide smile not yet set
beneath
the trifold hat, but imprisoned
only by
those hard enjambments and
her mother, whom
Bishop loathed. But no
matter how much I
want to
pity her, that smile reminds me
only that
we make our own prisons
and then love them.
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Photo: Thomas Ulrich
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