Cutting the Figure of a Man
Disegno means each David comes
before the Michelangelo,
Academy, and learnèd looks
of dilettantes who come and go.
One woman marked the man in me,
set deep within a hunk of stone;
she worked my figure day and night,
then left me—finished—all alone.
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[1] https://www.ablemuse.com/digital-books-11/v11/digital edition/Complete Digital Version of -/Able Muse, Print Edition (Number 11), Summer 2011