"Baldassare wore that dry air of self-sufficiency which respects the inwardness of others..." Sidney Alexander, MICHELANGELO THE FLORENTINE.
Streams, muttering silver, thin
and white under shadowed oak,
over granite arranged so
as to form a fortress in
black glitter; they water skin.
Linger, alabaster glow
until clouds we can't see flit
between moon and those arrows
sunk in Plutonic, rich filth
mere inches from her pale toes.
_____Exposed to the arching sky,
_____a goddess knows she won't die.
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