Insider Art

Bill Spencer
("Chacán-Pi" sculpted by Fernando de la Jara. Photo: Kamahele via Wikimedia)
(“Chacán-Pi” sculpted by Fernando de la Jara. Photo: Kamahele via Wikimedia)

(This poem previously appeared in Defenestration.)

Insider Art

“American Student Rescued after Getting Stuck in Giant Vagina Sculpture in Germany.”
New York Daily News, June 23, 2014

Twenty-two firefighters labored to deliver you,
yours a different kind of fire.

You couldn’t resist the primal allure,
mad to delve into, to feel, to merge.

Then the struggle, the red face, the full epiphany,
the only way out the way you came.

Not the first to need help in a tight place,
not the first to be snared by feminine art.

A second birth—born this time into the brotherhood of men.

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4 thoughts on “Insider Art”

  1. I can’t imagine that will be the last student who gets stuck in a giant vagina sculpture. Then there will be online courses and before you know it, a movement is born.

    1. Yes, in fact, to encourage more hands-on art interaction, an on-site course is in the pipeline.

      I see what you did there with “born.”

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