Photo After Pogrom
Mina Loy
1882 to 1966
Arrangement by rage
of human rubble
the false-eternal statues of the slain
until they putrify.
Tossed on a pile of dead,
one woman,
her body hacked to utter beauty
oddly by murder,
attains the absolute smile
of dispossession:
the marble pause before the extinct haven
Death's drear
erasure of fear,
the unassumed
composure
the purposeless peace
sealing the faces
of corpses—
Corpses are virgin.
Mina Loy's Photo After Pogrom
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