The Un-Loving of You

by Kate Van Raden



I’m letting you go,

I’m giving you back,

Each bit of your self that I’ve kept…

I returned those eye brows,

and a few of your teeth,

I packed them and hummed as I wept…

I shipped off your thighs in a box with some fingers,

the larger ones only, for now…

When you asked for your shoulders

I blinked back a frown,

But I let you take them,

And some lashes I’d found.

Now, the chuckle was… Continue

I found serendipitously an installation by Walter Verdin that brings to life the 10 figures in Flemish mater Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross". You're in for a treat if you have never seen the painting or the installation.
http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2010/04/rogier-van-der-weydens-descent-from.html