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Innocence, by Beverley Rippon*

INNOCENCE

by Jeff Seffinga

Undisturbed
and filled with self-assurance,
she combs her hair.

She sits amorphous
with the innocent guise of a child.
A woman’s shape is still obscured
in the thickness of her waist,
the solidity of her unformed hips,
the soft fat on her rib cage.

Affirmation of femininity
is already evident in the energies
flowing through arms and hair,
the slow twist of the torso.
There is grace in the curve of her neck;
in her thighs, the promise of power.

Oh, could we but capture
that timeless innocence forever,
hold it in bronze.



Artwalk III, #10
 
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*Visit the web site of artist Beverley Rippon


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