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A PAINTING BY AN UNKNOWN MASTER

Duane Locke

Her near corporeality, a magnifying glass, she enlarges.
Now, with a memory of her invented earth, I see
The painted specks ovalling the eyes
Of Mary Magdalene as the sparks of diamonds
That never originated from diamonds,
As illuminations orphaned by the Bible, the church,
An invention of a mind suffused
With the flicker of white flowers
And the whiteness of white rivers.
And the whiteness of June’s white lightning,
An embodied mind that loved this earth
But did not love this man-uglied world.

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