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Absolutely Revolting
Poem
by Bronwyn Lea •
May 2017, no. 391

We admire it because it disdains to destroy us:
beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror

Chagall’s falling man, a grandfather clock, a yellow
cow with a blue violin populate an allegory of terror

 


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