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Manet's Olympia Margaret Atwood She reclines, more or less. He" right arm sharp ang Slices but no si how siriï5tefc"Fhë flower behind her ear is nati ..;ece the sofa's drapery, •. indows (if is indoor sin. Above the head of the , : is an invisible voice balloon: 5 . 14 VICE VERSA • NUMÉRO 46-47 bush, changer d'air main à la pâte But. Consider the body, unfragile, defiant, the pale nipples staring you right m the bullseye. Consider also the black ribbon around the neck. What's under it? ie red threadline, where the head was I ,nd glued back on. The body's on offer, but the neck's as far as it gees. This is no morsel. Put clothes on her and you'd have a schoolteacher, the kind with the brittle whiphand. • I e's someone else m this room. You, Monsieur Voy As for that object of yot i she's seen those before, and better •.ltfed. J:
P a 1 o m a r A man looks at a beautiful woman who is trying to get him through a door him and his legbrace, clumsy hammered carapace of metal, shrapnel on the outside of his body from a war he must have forgotten or never fought Some spike on him is caught down there. She bends over and he looks at her graceful rump, and thinks rump, and then thinks: pear on a plate, and, on the underside, two apples. He can't believe he can be so trite, like some shoddy derivative painter, and so removed from her Aren't those thighs? Isn't that hair? He opens the thighs, strokes the hair, nothing stirs. He thinks harder tries vulva; a word like a part in a car motor something made of rubber, an oily valve that squeezes and turns itself inside out No hope for it Once he would have been able to smell her, pungency of spring pond and soft onions mixed with a coy deodorant eyelet and armpit and beyond that the murmur of willows, leaves of sunlit weeds crushed under her, but now she has no such halo. She stands up and smiles at him, a smile so translucent he wrinkles in it, like the skin on steamed milk. He's nothing to her but luggage she needs to haul from room to room, or a sick dog to be kind to. She says, "Shall we try again?" He thinks, / am angry. She takes his arm. He thinks, / will die soon. These two poems will be published in a volume of poetry forfhamms m fall 1994 from McClelland & Steu^in. NUMÉRO 46-47 • VICE VERSA 1 5
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