Early Harvest, Gusto Press

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Faces, B.C.E.

Immutable stone
steatite, limestone
sandstone, granite.
Anthropomorphic
... zoomorphic
inert materials.
Human hands
... worked you
into aesthetic
definable shapes
aeons ago.

.... Your
bland fierce asexual
visages confront me
the inheritor of
art pre-historical
... my steps ringing
through stone corridors
of stone buildings
erected to house
... stone artifacts.

Meant to outlast
your creators
... you yet live
in a mythic
... skin-itching way.
I look at you
and you look
right back at me.

c. 1980 Rita Rosenfeld