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"Two Women" by Alarie Tennille
Two Women by Alarie Tennille
4/6/2016 0 Comments
Picture
Two Women, by Leonor Fini, 1939.
Two Women
Every “can’t believe SHE
is YOUR sister” spikes acid
through my veins.
Shouldn’t my little sister shadow
me, copy my moves? Not her.
She arrived an adult, no, a presence,
wrapped in a precious, doll-sized body.
As she grew, I faded.
I pretended she wasn’t there,
even while crouching at key holes,
trying to make sense of her –
the strut, the here I am! tsunami
when she enters a room.
Surely she can’t wear lit candles
in her hair, but I see them. Others
just see the glow.
Alarie Tennille
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/...
4/6/2016 0 Comments
Picture
Two Women, by Leonor Fini, 1939.
Two Women
Every “can’t believe SHE
is YOUR sister” spikes acid
through my veins.
Shouldn’t my little sister shadow
me, copy my moves? Not her.
She arrived an adult, no, a presence,
wrapped in a precious, doll-sized body.
As she grew, I faded.
I pretended she wasn’t there,
even while crouching at key holes,
trying to make sense of her –
the strut, the here I am! tsunami
when she enters a room.
Surely she can’t wear lit candles
in her hair, but I see them. Others
just see the glow.
Alarie Tennille
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/...
Alarie Nominated for Best of the Net
I'm very excited to be nominated for the Best of the Net by The Ekphrastic Review. I love writing poems about art. Next to my father, Monet is my most frequent person named in poems. I fell in love with him when I was about 10.
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