'Boboli Captive.' Michelanglo.
Michelangelo marble white dungeons, luminous solid indifferent confine emperors, warriors, deity, commoners, beasts.
watermoving robes, twisted laurel leaf strands, arms flexed hanging ready for battle, hooves straining to gallop, fangs bared whitesharp,
pinions folded soft— in irons
seconds, minutes, days, years, centuries, forever—
until the chisel-bearing
"free
at last
..."
emancipator walks by whistling
—Laurie Ringer
