Barbara Hoffman
Small Beauties
in Rodin's garden
the fragrance of pale pink
roses the buzz of bees
I sit eating cheese
and bread listening
to lovers' conversations
I think of Camille Claudel
in Rodin's garden
fragrant pink roses
the buzz of bees
her small sculptures
so few of them
were her hands silenced
by her lover's work
his needs
did she love
modeling clothing half-
draped
in Rodin's garden
pale pink fragrance
the buzz of bees
in roses how could
it not matter
that her hands stopped
touching clay molding
draping it
over an armature
her sculptures in height
do not come up to the knees
of The Thinker
at the far end of the garden
woman's work
always in miniature
pale pink roses
the drowse of bees
in Rodin's garden
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