Thursday, December 7, 2017

Above Hadrian’s Wall Valentine

Oddly a mirror and a comb
Are carved on one of the Pict stones
Placed at the bottom
 
And just above them
Two sun-like circles
Joined by a rigid line
 
And at the sovereign top
A starving kelpie
A dragon-man leers
 
Clear lines are drawn
Between these three pictures
So it’s a vertical triptych tall and leaning
 
A veritable human being
As if staring at her youth
From several angles

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