There's a face in @amantineb.bsky.social's #ekphrastic poem 'La Gioconda' which, like the Mona Lisa's, you can't take your eyes off.
' ... In our incomplete
house of tongues, from such sacred clay
and embalmed scars, your beauty's skinned
into an ancient prayer ... '
https://afterpoetry.com/poem/may-12-2025-amantine-brodeur
' ... In our incomplete
house of tongues, from such sacred clay
and embalmed scars, your beauty's skinned
into an ancient prayer ... '
https://afterpoetry.com/poem/may-12-2025-amantine-brodeur
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