Title Unspecified: After a Sculpture by Hans Arp, by Robbi Nester

Title Unspecified, by Jean "Hans" Arp (French, b. German), 1950s.

Title Unspecified: After a Sculpture by Hans Arp
 
This is the body as it was at the beginning--
neither male nor female, all soft folds.
A bulging bag full of eels,
it becomes as we watch
an elbow, a knee, a head
tilted upward, blank face
shining like the shadowed moon.

Robbi Nester

This poem was written for the 20 Poem Challenge.

Robbi Nester is the author of an ekphrastic chapbook titled Balance (White Violet, 2012) and other poetry collections. Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies, including Cimarron Review, Broadsided, Silver Birch Press, Poemeleon, and Inlandia.