Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Poussin's Anxiety Dreams

The beggar puts his baby on the temple stairs
beneath the miracle of the lame man
catching a coin from an onlooker

Midas washes himself in the river
behind a large river god
to touch without turning all to gold

The Sabine women are strong
they put up a fight
in their carefully staged abduction

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