WEN: A04593
Exhibitor Name: Evie Groch
Division: Poetry (Adults)
Class: 01 Poetry
No Reflection on You
Her stoic smile attached to the lower half of her face, stiff, shallow, a thin façade. Her eyes two soft muddy pools staring through you as they sap you of pity, demand your attention.
Clad in earth tones of hanging cloth, head-covering saintly as a Madonna’s, she hovers, glides, approaches for a skeletal embrace, A plastic cup in one bony hand asks for what need not be voiced. Day after day, we come across her In Florence, circling il Duomo , its aged bricks complementing her dark skin. Among the crowds she is invisible, eliciting no response, no break in brisk walk, no eye contact, just a quick side step. None of these a deterrent to her mission, like an ant, who, when its route is blocked or comrades crushed, continues on the programmed path, oblivious to obstacles, impervious to pain, noiseless, determined, surviving in silence and anonymity. This, in the city of art, white marble, and an overabundance of ruins and style.
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