Cleopatra
Cleopatra
“How good it feels to stroke the finest linen
and to know that yarn spun from the drop spindle
came by planters, harvesters, and so many others,
and is dyed thread woven on the loom into fabric
and then sewn into garments for me to wear.”
And I saw that the artist’s finest paint
was to take the brush and stroke
the depth of a goddess to whom the people of Egypt
immortalize as the ‘Queen of the Nile,’
and wasn’t that what Cleopatra was all about?
Copyright © Dennis Spilchuk | Year Posted 2023
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