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J S Robinson was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the California Institute of Technology and has been published in Stinging Fly, Poet’s Bookshelf, Census, Southword, The Sunday Tribune and Magma. She will be reading at the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, 2011 and has work forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review.
Primitive Representation of Shiva Nataraja, damaged in transit
I’ll throw you out you dancer with a missing foot! How many times have I wrapped you up in cotton wool, stuffed you in a bag to sell you, trash you, pass you on,
melt you down, reduce your threat to iron ore, transformed in the blacksmith’s fire, made into local ware— horseshoe or an iron gate? You should have been
golden with grace, your shining limbs akimbo, every hand and gesture pointing to your pointed toe which sings release. What happens when we get
a rough corroded cast barely balanced on one leg, only the hips surrounded by a ring of fire and hacked off at the calf the most important foot?
Is release the rust that drips from your stump the dance forever halted on my mantelpiece? Horrible presence, I would throw you out
but superstition says I must fashion you a new limb, bandage it on with coils of wire, watch you flex your stiffened sole expand your ring of fire
bathe this house in light dance us into life.
©2010 Jane Robinson
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