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Sport 40: 2012
FIGURES III—THE DAUGHTER OF DIOMEDES
FIGURES III—THE DAUGHTER OF DIOMEDES
dust and lava covering the streets like
snow · on the step recumbent as in sleep
though hardly breathing now a torso and
the hollow of its form · neck shoulder
and breast of a girl impressed in the cold
ash as fragments of a statue burst by
fire · in this rigid state the face became a
countenance for which no language has a
name · a metonymy turned to stone · the
daughter of diomedes · at the vertex her
tunic splits into two pleats arms bare
all the way to the back · like a mussel
in the pompeian red of the waves and
its gleaming shell · a perfect cast of
white but then a figure of such absence
pompeii, 15. 2 . 98