Hostage
Like Woman-Ochre, 1955 cut from her frame then ignored just another hostage left to hang laundry left back of the bedroom door. Her hair swept up her throat slashed with shadow her thighs bloodied. Those brutal hands reaching for her. De Kooning, her first ransomer, then passed among them. Even the museum questions her. After more than 30 years, we are not so sure. Is she armed? Was she always winged & masked? Is that a metal cod piece, a raised sword, the red between her ample thighs, a cape? Ann Dernier Ann Dernier is Managing Editor at Kore Press. Her collection, In the Fury (Grey Book Press 2015), was short-listed for the Robert Dana Poetry Prize at Anhinga Press and the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award in Poetry. You can read her poems inBurningword Literary Journal, Poppy Road Review, Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies, Threepenny Review, Weaving the Terrain Anthology: Dos Gatos Press, SWWIM.org, Rumble Fish Quarterly and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. More at anndernier.com.
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