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On a Bronzino at the Uffizi.(Poem)

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ON A BRONZINO AT THE UFFIZI 
 
   Her ruffles are strawberry ice, her satin 
   a Sunday School picnic dessert, her dress 
   an essay on thingness, and close to flat-chested 
   she almost gets lost beneath it all, 
   her pale face pinned in an expression of stillness. 
   Richly secular, her finicity posture 
   earns a permanent place, oil on wood, 
   in Vasari's room 18. 
 
   Sometime late in the nineteenth century 
   I suppose Harry James became Henry 
   faced with a portrait like this--sumptuous 
   velvet wine sleeves, her necklace 
   a harness proclaiming dure sans fin amour, 
   sans fin amour dure. Face ...
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