ABRUPTO

06:41 (JPP)

EARLY MORNING BLOGS

1371 - The Sharpening Stone (fragmento)

Sarcophage des epoux. In terra cotta.
Etruscan couple shown side by side,
Recumbent on left elbows, husband pointing
With his right arm and watching where he points,
Wife in front, her earrings in, her braids
Down to her waist, taking her sexual ease.
He is all eyes, she is all brow and dream,
Her right forearm and hand held out as if
Some bird she sees in her deep inward gaze
Might be about to roost there. Domestic
Love, the artist thought, warm tones and property,
The frangibility of terra cotta...
Which is how they figured on the colour postcard
(Louvre, Departement des Antiquites)
That'd we'd sent him once, then found among his things.

(Seamus Heaney )