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November 20, 2001 by krisis

Atlas

(after Plath’s Edge)

The mind is sleeping.
A mighty

Giant stands in quiet surrender,
The air of spartan arrangement

Is crisp in the curves of her muscles,
Her bare

Shoulders are claiming:
We will not topple over, i know.

Two gaping spaces stretched strangley silent
Each one in

A state of crumble, emptied.
She still holds

Her torch to light the same sky
Of steely jagged mountain majesties

stiff and resisting the
winds of change, cold of winter seeping in.

Her set lips reveal nothing,
Visage fixed on endless clouds beyond.

She is weary of the weight.
Her brow furrows, green.

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  1. Crushing Krisis › Bad Teenage Poetry Blogging Day says:
    August 12, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    […] This is actually my favorite, because I plucked it out of the high school era to recraft it in college (and, firmly in the blog-era, as this was the same class that produced “Atlas“) […]

  2. Crushing Krisis › Writer’s Envy says:
    March 5, 2010 at 11:14 am

    […] once wrote a poem to match it for a college class, and nine years later it still resonates pretty strongly. I suppose I was both […]

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