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Lequisia the poetess

By Dana Carnemalla

what are you doing here?

Among those solemn Christian portraits

with your brash gypsy blue turban

contrasting to the stern visage of St. James the greater

your gauze shirt slips back

to reveal a milky shoulder

unashamed across from the statue of eve repented

you stand trapped against that amber background

defiant

with your quill hanging sultry over packed parchments

resting against your thigh

the converted St. Catherine of Alexandria

stares across the gallery

but beneath that smug interior

I could almost swear she seems jealous

so are you converted too, Lequisia

or did they,

as your blazing eyes tell me

make a mistake

hanging your picture here.

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