Poem by Maggs Vibo : “Naked”

Naked 

Romulus and Remus
at Milesgården
Couldn't nurse from 6' away
And at the Vigeland, an obelisk
Projects a naked that we stave
Of honest and stark attitudes—Or maybe instead
Projecting nude?
As Graves surmised, we get confused
And so we sit
At physical length
Listening to plans
Tongue-in-cheek
Of isolated workouts
Job burnout
And economic turnout
A rawness and 
Honesty
Like a Belvedere torso 





Margaret Viboolsittiseri (aka Maggs Vibo) works in print, broadcast, special events, glitch media, and online. She is a contributor for Poem Atlas and has experimental art in the winnow
magazine, Coven Poetry, Ice Floe Press, The Babel Tower Notice Board, ang(st), The Wombwell Rainbow. Recent anthologies include Poem Atlas ‘aww-struck’, Steel Incisors, Fevers of the
Mind Press Presents the Poets of 2020 (January, 2021) and ‘My teeth don’t chew on shrapnel’: an anthology of poetry by military veterans (Oxford Brookes, 2020). She tweets @maggsvibo
and her website is https://www.maggsvibo.com/