“A Quartet of Poems After Michelangelo” by Cheney Crow (poetry ’14)

Poetry alumn Cheney Crow was recently featured with in The Ekphrastic Review. Read an excerpt and find a link to the full text below:

Michelangelo’s Captives: Dying Slave

Louvre museum, Paris
carved 1513-1516

He stands in a hall,
windows sifting light from either side;
shadows accentuate
the muscled shoulder raised,
its bicep flexed below
an elbow pointing
high above his head.

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