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nude

from top to bottom, like a
root,
she stretched across the entire 
canvas,

eyes, petals, closed 
                  ~ arms ~ melting ~ beewax ~ liquid ~ imitating
water ~ 


                              outside the
frame, you could see
her stretched legs
                              white, 
                                        snowflakes
her flawless body ~     it
                                         seemed to expand
right
       before your eyes, like
                                       a deerskin stretched
on a wooden log wall,
in a hunting lodge,
and
to keep from falling, she was clinging, here and
                                        there, to a few nails, as if she
was a spider that underscored the
importance
of roots,

*(and, what if this power weakens, even when you are on a canvas?
and what was held together can fall apart like a silk veil blown by the wind.)

Copyright © Maria Mitea

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