Wednesday, July 07, 2021

La Chambre (after Balthus)

 


La Chambre (after Balthus)

A stub fury stands
drawing open the vast drapes
letting in the accusatory light
upon the sprawled, naked sleeper
whose odalisque interiority
is thus so rudely summoned.
She blooms on her throne
like a migraine
in that cat fraught room.
- K.C.

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