Turbula - Autumn 2004 - Awaiting the Availing Sun


Volume III, Issue III	Autumn 2004

Awaiting the Availing Sun

About Jessica Cortez

Jessica Cortez is a student at Point Loma Nazarene University. Her short story, "Among Admirers, Among Strangers," was published in the Summer 2004 issue of Turbula.

By Jessica Cortez

A poem for the lives of Plath, Picasso and Blake

Hair pinned, Sunday-shined
Sophisticate. Bearing
Abstract a cunning pleated skirt.

The impasto blues
of fragmented acrylic paint
dilute his design.

Solaced by the thought
of pagan poetry; a linear
rhythm to Blake's Hell.

Illustration by Theresa Hernandez

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