- Vol. 05
- Chapter 11
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Image by Penny Byrne
There is a harp
old school, sits at her harp playing,
strumming our notes on a porcelain ground –
someone’s painted the harp orange and splashed it on the chair,
decked her in a gas mask and oxygen tank
invoked Fukushima on a Meissen figure –
it’s as if the whole modern world came out of some Grecian idyll, some long-dressed susceptibility, some classical-music figurine,
and then was added poison