Aug 11, 2019HTBS

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John Gibson’s “Narcissus”, Royal Academy of Arts/Wikipedia.

11 August 2019

By Philip Kuepper

Perhaps Narcissus
drowned mesmerized,
not by beauty, but by fright,
if ripples in the pond
caused the reflection of his face
melt into a mass of wrinkles.

(18 July 2019)

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