Thanks Gail (and Bob, of course) for the plug. It was certainly an interesting experience having a poem published with an illustration. Icons are genre works, and certain scenes and attributes are reproduced again and again, but with slight variations. My poem was based more on a "composite" of this particular genre than on an individual icon. The art staff was therefore perplexed at not being able to find an icon that perfectly fit with all the details of my description. To me, that was not the point, as I had intended the poem to stand alone, and the icon to be imagined. So it was interesting having to deal with the problems of an actual image.
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