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Mare Nectaris of the Moon l Roger Hyman

1001 Nights (1998) Art: Yoshitaka Amano

Alexander Pope (1849-1924)

The Wild Swan, 1900, Oil on canvas

Museum purchase, gifts from members of the Board of Trustees, the M. H. de Young Museum Society, the Patrons of Art and Music, Friends of the Museums, and by exchange.

de Young Museum, San Francisco, California

You feed on the parts

I try to hide,

a metaphor

that you’re eating me alive.

Pierced on the neck,

where the words grow thin.

Nothing bleeds,

but teeth sink in.

You’ve frozen my world,

now nothing grows around me.

Taken, eaten, discarded

—like zombie-candy.

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