Stone
She held the stone outside that sculptor's dwelling
It was her own and solitary : "Gates of Hell"
The child of her desire for copulation/his rejection thereof
Who is greater, she or he? Rodin is august,
But what of her experience on the outside of his radius?
And in a square chamber Kollwitz helps us
Also become a stone or metal mother wrapped around
That which is most precious to her : who can bear it?
Although it is stone or metal alone.
I'd like to curl on her doorway just like a mistress.
I am the mother of the stillborn child of my love.
It was her own and solitary : "Gates of Hell"
The child of her desire for copulation/his rejection thereof
Who is greater, she or he? Rodin is august,
But what of her experience on the outside of his radius?
And in a square chamber Kollwitz helps us
Also become a stone or metal mother wrapped around
That which is most precious to her : who can bear it?
Although it is stone or metal alone.
I'd like to curl on her doorway just like a mistress.
I am the mother of the stillborn child of my love.