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Michelangelo by Laurie Ringer
from Legacy 1991
Michelangelo
by Laurie Ringer
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marble white dungeons, luminous solid indifferent
confine emperors, warriors, deity, commoners,
beasts.
watermoving robes, twisted laurel leaf strand,
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 emancipator walks by whistling
"free at last..."
