TRANSFORMATIONS
February 2013-March 2014
17 poets, 15 months, creating 1 contemporary reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
See the Transformations Page for more details or the ‘Present Collaborations’ Tab
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Poems Inspired by Book 6
>>Featuring:
Rebecca Audra Smith, Sadaf Fatima
and Karin Heyer
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Act 1
‘The king in his guilty passion often took pleasure with the body he had so mutilated.’
by Rebecca Audra Smith
She let fall a string of no’s
so I took her tongue.
What use was it to her, to speak?
She was making too much fuss,
stressing me out. I ran for miles,
going nowhere, treading
old ground. I thought of her,
silence between four walls except
for the noisy mess of her hands
-now untied-
my fists dragged the air.
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A man looks good with a sister each side,
she shadows my wife’s gilded days,
a limbless knowledge.
I keep…
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