Image/Her-Story
Bent over a bowl, her
hands froze in water.
Lost: the life that came
before, and after
she was disrobed
and set before us.
As it is, she appears
to be traditional:
White, orderly, slightly
rough but modest.
This is what we see
at least, but then again
there is that rumor,
the one about the maker
Mary Cassatt
and that painter of ballerinas,
a trifling little thing,
or maybe not
but in any case,
not usually part of
her story, or history,
just like the life
of the woman
she set before us.
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