“Ship of Fools: Surviving Fragment of Triptych” by Rose Auslander (poetry ’15)
An excerpt from “Ship of Fools: Surviving Fragment of Triptych” by Rose Auslander (poetry ’15) published by The Piltdown Review.
Ship of Fools: Surviving Fragment of Triptych
and what remains of us? A plateful of cherries
spilled, half-eaten, a breast forgotten, dangling
from a torn bodice, men bellowing drunk
nuns plucking lutes, blind to children
begging naked in the water and
the fool we raised on high to guide
our leaking vessel, canvas torn, paint
cracked with age or by his rage—
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