July 2012
33 posts
Sharing Poetry: Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid... →
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—after the painting by Diego Velàzquez, ca. 1619 She is the vessels on the table before her: the copper pot tipped toward us, the white pitcher clutched in her hand, the black one edged in red and upside down. Bent over, she is the mortar and the pestle at rest in the mortar—still angled …