Friday, November 22, 2019

Pie Jesu II

Renaissance altarpieces—
how sexy ARE they?
Classical friezes—
hoplites wearing dresses
(to our dismay).
Renaissance altarpieces—
knees dragging the traces—
Jesus, our loving savior.

Classical friezes,
eh? Ok, the head of Medusa—
all those swaying shiksas.
Renaissance altarpieces—
Christ’s feet in the Pieta;
Mother Mary
a beautiful teenager.
Fish decal on my fender,
You don’t say.
Renaissance altarpieces.
Classical friezes.