A Picture By Brueghel: Landscape With Icarus Falling

(contra Auden)
By Shane Rhodes
Poetry · From the May 2005 magazine
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the sea with
broken wings
is less
amazing
than the ship
sailing by
with its paint-thick hold
full of slaves
from Mozambique.
Or the shepherd
staring away so
intent at nothing
his eyes
gouge out.
Such private things
done
with public weight.
He was wrong,
the old master,
about suffering.
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