The Testimony Given to the Court Remains Ambiguous
Like a milkmaid, Leda curves into the avid swan, her sheer rain of drapery spilling into cloud. She looks grim about her business. What the swan is whispering, blandishments or threats, escapes us. Perhaps Zeus worries about comparisons to swains, fearing he’ll come off poorly with his primitive cloaca. He presses his other points upon her. Above, horses, dogs, a girl model shock, the world holding more possibilities than they were told of. Devon Balwit This poem was written in response to the surprise ekphrastic poetry challenge on birds. Devon Balwit teaches in Portland, OR. She has six chapbooks and two collections out or forthcoming, among them: We are Procession, Seismograph (Nixes Mate Books), Risk Being/Complicated (A collaboration with Canadian artist Lorette C. Luzajic); and Motes at Play in the Halls of Light (Kelsay Books). Her individual poems can be found here in The Ekphrastic Review as well as in The Cincinnati Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Fifth Wednesday, the Aeolian Harp Folio, Red Earth Review, The Fourth River, The Free State Review, Red Paint Hill, Peacock Journal, and more.
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Mary McCarthy
2/8/2018 09:26:06 pm
Wow you did a great job with this one--certainly not the usual way it's been drawn-- Leda looks exactly as you say, just getting the damn job done.
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