(By Rodin) At this angle his head is higher than the mountains
behind him
his shock of hair
against the clear blue sky -
immense
audacious.
Search for the eyes some feature
in the form:
everything is inaccessible.
Yet all together in this light
is he not breathing? - Or caught
at just the moment when
his chest drawn up and held
his whole body is one cloaked and massive
pointing -
a race of shimmering bits of silver
out of focus drawn together
soaring.
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