Awaiting the Availing Sun
Jessica Cortez is a student at Point Loma Nazarene University. Her short story, "Among Admirers, Among Strangers," was published in the Summer 2004 issue of Turbula.
By Jessica Cortez
A poem for the lives of Plath, Picasso and Blake
Hair pinned, Sunday-shined
Sophisticate. Bearing
a cunning pleated skirt.
The impasto blues
of fragmented acrylic paint
dilute his design.
Solaced by the thought
of pagan poetry; a linear
rhythm to Blake's Hell. |