Jul-Aug '03 [Home] Poetry

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Masters Feature: Self-Portrait/ Monsters Twelve

Confessional Self-Portrait Ellen Stoepel Peckham (series of etchings with script overlay) Guarded as the centurion olive Tough and rooted deep enough To be inured to drought Whether of sky or spirit— Maybe blind Or only inward looking Refusing to see death in the mirror Or hear the familial siren Crying madness in her mind.