LIBERTÉ

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Ankles shackled

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metalled and islanded

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holding aloft a mirror, feral

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lipstick, eye-liner

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             She’s

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a celebrity   a star attraction

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a glare effacing

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the French Revolution’s

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risen juices    vintage taste

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the Paris Commune’s

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fierce inscriptions

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lost in translation

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Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, including A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 was published in 2011.

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