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Pam A. Parker

Poetry

Winter 1994

Stone

By Pam A. Parker

Be for me the body I cannot be, lend me your desire, let me see release, fill up the form only my mind can see. Conjure and bless, your magic […]

Poetry

Summer 1991

Anatomy Lessons

By Pam A. Parker

Lamplit, Leonardo da Vinci cut upstolen corpses, secretly figured out the muscles, tendons, ligaments, under threat ofexcommunication. Nightly, Michelangelo drafted death’s skin,bones, his charcoal drawing a secret knowledgebarred by Rome’s […]