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Photo: Alyssa Fronden
Drawing David
By Barbara Patten
You’re actually made of exquisite marble,
And live snug under an immense dome,
At the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.
Naked, pure-white, ready to kill Goliath,
I draw from your copy, cheap cement,
That lives in a cold classroom
At Lake Superior College in Duluth.
Flesh-colored, a glistening coating, scratched.
What is here is shrunken and weakened.
I draw your head, infested with tangled curls,
As you are cut off below your chest,
Your deadly sling and arms dismembered.
Michelangelo chipped away at you three years,
Flecks of white dust, lodging in his eyes,
Chiseling a deep reflection of male perfection,
A fixed stare, glaring, at Rome.
I outline your features with chalk in an hour,
Black powder staining my fingertips,
Smearing the shadows of your eyes,
An assignment in depth, on cheap paper.
You are quite angry, your brow furrowed,
But I can’t help you regain your prestige,
With this dusty poor drawing
Taped to the wall, graded, and forgotten.