Poet: Megan Lent, Sacramento, CA
Small Doggies Single Poem Feature #4: Megan Lent, Sacramento, CA
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The Museum
He and I go to the museum on a Monday.
We look at a sculpture of a man made of blue iron.
We look at a painting of water lilies.
We kiss in front of an installation that is about Shoah,
which means burning
which means total combustion.
We stand in front of a portrait
of a woman, and a child, and the careful black outline painted over a cradle,
the shadowed-in ghost of something no longer in the room.
The word that we don’t say
stands over us, like a gallows,
with baby feet.
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Megan Lent has previously published fiction, poetry, comedy (but it's not very funny) and articles about pop feminism throughout the Internet. She is currently watching The Departed. She has relatively high self-esteem and yet is still unemployed. If anyone would like to hire her, please find her on Facebook and let her know. She lives in Sacramento, California.