At the Musée Rodin in Paris

Vandal Poem of the Day: February 16, 2017

by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
in front of a window
facing south, two white
marble hands fold
around air.
A label on the pedestal reads
Le Secret.
Did Rodin also sculpt
the air between those hands?
Is it caught there ever since:
the mold of secrecy?
   I waited hours for the sun
to flow through them.
   All it did was cast
a shadow to the ground.
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