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GRANDMOTHER
AND CHILD
As
on a gilt trecento board
in
a baroque academy
haloed
St Anne supports the Lord,
an
infant, stiff upon her knee—
these
were as warmly photographed:
solemn
they sit and well composed,
with
heavy, yellow drapes abaft
and
in celestial light enclosed.
Stunned
by his own created world,
the
babe’s surprise is justified;
and
so (her arm about him curled)
is
her unfazed, seraphic pride.
Alan
Marshfield
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