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EKPHRASIS : Art Describing Art : 2015

California Writers Club, Mendocino Branch : A Collaboration : Artists Co-Op of Mendocino​
Writers Responding to Visual Artworks

Barbara MacKay “Mirrored Self”

Responded to visual artwork by
​

Karen Bowers “Moment”
​

Picture
Mirrored Self (Nude) by Barbara MacKay

someone said
paste your pain on the wall
I put mine on the edge
of a shaded canvas

​
and there it hangs
a phantom breast
haloed in soft green

what’s left of me
my full torso
predominates the canvas
colors playing against each other

hair of rust, jaundiced rib cage
blue-veined buttocks
intervals of white skin

and those sketchy pencilings
the filaments
of my soul

the who I am
 
not blank inside
just a little faded
waiting for pain to subside
                                                                              waiting for flesh to heal
                                                                              waiting for wholeness

my mirrored self
releases me
​
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