Written by
Nancy Anne Miller

Nancy Anne Miller is a Bermudian poet with five books: Somersault (Guernica Editions ), Because There Was No Sea(Anaphora Literary Press), Immigrant’s Autumn (Aldrich Press), Water Logged (Aldrich Press) and Star Map (Future Cycle Press.) She is a MacDowell Fellow with an MLitt in Creative Writing from the Univ. of Glasgow and is published in Edinburgh Review, Agenda , Magma , New Welsh Review, Stand, Postcolonial Text, The International Literary Quarterly, The Fiddlehead , The Dalhousie Review, The Moth, The Caribbean Writer, Poui, Bim, The Arts Journal, Wasafiri, Poetry Salzburg Review, Journal of Postcolonial Writing among other international journals.

Painted Woman

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after Cecily Brown

Paint her in, seal the edges of her
bare body, drop paint on her, like
a sinker on a fishing line drowns

the hook. Make sure she can’t
breathe, can barely turn to look at
you, her Master. I would rather

a woman paint another naked:
waves of high pink, choppy as
an ocean, push the frame’s eddies.

The subject spread across the canvas.
The geography of acute sensations
a nude is when her skin is touched.

Artwork: Bodyscape #2, 2016, Acrylic on canvas by Rob Tokarz

Artist’s website: www.robtokarzart.com | Artist’s Instagram: @robtokarz

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Volume 16

Heroes and Villains - Summer 2016

Verse

Painted Woman