Tony (A A) Marcoff

Pieta

it is an origami landscape folded into a world of paper – a paper reality: the artist has used geometry to cast her figures, and the Madonna is a triangle of light: she holds her sacred son in the shape of sorrow, this pieta of angles, points, and edges: a tear falls down her cheek like a star:

Aboa paper world
folded into reality
in which
tears and pain
are sharp

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About the Author

Tony (AA) Marcoff is an Anglo-Russian poet who has lived in Africa, Iran, France and Japan. He writes haiku, tanka, tanka-prose and mainstream poetry, and lives near the beautiful River Mole in England .

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