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  Head of a Woman with her Hair Loose
by Megan Summers

The hair runs from her head
and beyond the perimeters
of this moment,
what remains lightened by the sun
and cradling her pale neck,

its long, vertical shades of skin
connecting themselves to her
surrendered face,

where we wantonly fix
our gaze.

She seems to question herself,
glancing through a window, perhaps,
or tracing the design of a vase with her eyes.

She is the only event:
painted loosely, barely unified
but still alive, focused
on what we can only hope to know
or comprehend,

something signaling her complete
resignation from the composition.

 

 

 

 

 

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A native Floridian, Megan has traveled and lived all along the Southeastern US coast. She currently calls Beaufort, SC home, where she is working toward a Bachelor's Degree in English at the University of South Carolina. She serves as an editor to the university literary magazine, The Pen. When she is not busy being a college student, she work at Beaufort's local library part-time to fund her addiction to books on poetry and art.