This poem is taken from PN Review 267, Volume 49 Number 1, September - October 2022.
Paula Rego’s Studio and her ‘Dollies’
1
Sacred space
– like a bedroom –
entered by few.
We human models
are accessory,
and accessary:
we survive,
a little older,
like the artist.
And the home-made
dollies survive,
they obey
in working hours
the rules of the game.
They keep their secrets.
2
After reading
a few pages
of Daphne du Maurier’s
...
Sacred space
– like a bedroom –
entered by few.
We human models
are accessory,
and accessary:
we survive,
a little older,
like the artist.
And the home-made
dollies survive,
they obey
in working hours
the rules of the game.
They keep their secrets.
2
After reading
a few pages
of Daphne du Maurier’s
...
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