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Not of Muscle
1st Place- President’s Award for Poetry Dunn
Weighted bronze Heavy stone I was found by Auguste Rodin Or maybe even Michelangelo I was Sculpted Chiseled Measured Assigned a persona Attributed a soul Crafted into detail To become a piece for others to know Chips in the alloy that I am Present to the world a face Revealing fragments of a story Possibly of being stuck someplace I am Sitting Crouching Thinking Observers view me in admiration Sometimes people go a distance Just to see me in this location Crowds get to know me well I’m defined as a piece of art But tell me What about me is so endearing? Do they forget that metal has no heart? The hands of a creator transformed me Into a shape easily recognized But is this shape artistic? Or is it a disguise? Weighted bronze Heavy stone You see no personal interactions I was crafted to be alone
