Bust of a Woman
Pose with bread on your head like a hat and a balancing act of a man and a maid beside the toilet and a bin for laundry and a pen. Stare out beyond the framed air while ants race up your face, parade near your ear and on the rising road of your lip. While monkey-like men dance on your collar necklace and the harvest rests on your neck in a scarf of corn, husked and tied from behind. No discourse here but balance and oddity merged on a bust waiting to be noticed and understood. Maureen Sherbondy Maureen Sherbondy’s latest poetry book is Belongings. She teaches English at ACC in Graham, NC.
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January 2021
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