Cutting the Figure of a Man

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audio of Nicholas Friedman's poem, Cutting the Figure of a Man

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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.