Tamara Madison 

Family Portrait

— After Magritte’s Domain of Arnheim

Mother rises hawk-headed
beneath the slivered moon,
snow-shouldered, looming,
to guard the nest she placed
so carefully on the narrow
fence, a mess of twine and twig
that holds her future
in our three perfect shells.

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium 1-2

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