Contrapposto
By Stewart Burke
One posture pleases most in death or love,
that blithe angle of artless poise rejoiced
when troops of angels by fulcrum hoist
one ilium as if by wings of a dove.
Like the grey undersides of late Spring leaves,
the merest dip in space and time reveals
an elegant bearing which balms and heals—
or brings to ardent souls quickeni…
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