I love to learn of you in metaphor

I love to learn of you in metaphor

the fashionable wares of your nature

undressing my own, unmaking what is

beautiful in the world into beauty.

I had no idea about shoulders or

the inside of elbows, how they could have

their own ideals, or that I would want

to think of ways of praising them like gods.

R. Charboneau

Artwork: Edvard Munch – Man and Woman (1898)