After Rodin

The world looks wrong after Rodin

We the people:  too big  too small
                                 too white            too loud
                                 too many clothes
                                 too few hands
                                     

Good posture:  over-rated
            We don’t round and twist on ourselves.

Too together
Not enough heads on pedestals
        disconnected hands, articulate distortions
                or torsos without arms
                        (It’s not a handy way to live)

Too much movement

Our axis:  awry
                  but more chiropractic than aesthetic

Bronze holds fast:  a medium harder than words
               or flesh, the medium of love
Bronze won’t let go

           
Each surface, not pressed into asymmetry by the
       human hand;
The world looks wrong after Rodin.