Sunday, January 29, 2017

After Viewing Helnwein's Epiphany II

















Enraptured
mouths agape,
they gaze.       

They don’t see her ivory breasts.

Gleaming virginity
eludes Aryan dreams
as she presents them with their
Destiny.

With shadowed arm,
in the harsh glow of
klieg,
he teaches them to 
submit.

They cannot know
how quickly falls
night's
blackest pall.

(14 July 2014)

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Image: Gottfried Helnwein, Epiphany II, deYoung Museum, San Francisco