Henry James Holiday, English
You Never Had To Guess Whether Jenna Was Awake Every Morning. You Just Listened For the Scream and the Splash, Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// Sara, belle d’indolence, is perfection
in a wrap which allows close inspection.
She need not sway nor twist.
Any body parts missed
can be viewed, you will see, on reflection.
/// She’s stretched out in a net hammock, prone.
And is fortunate to be alone.
For it’s well known that two
in one hammock who do
any moving will be overthrown.
/// When Newtonian Laws are applied
to a hammock that’s not very wide,
the thing swings side-to-side,
while the motions two tried
to perform were (by physics) denied.
/// Victor Hugo, in apt words but terse,
had inspired this work with French verse.
Sara swings to and fro
o’er a fountain below.
Now it’s poems again— only worse.