Girl with Racket

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Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1740, oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
 

You might fill empty futures with your raging

Power.  Everything is possible.

The story has not yet begun yet promises

Much.  Having glimpsed the magic ring

On the captive's finger, the bright-eyed heroine

Might turn out to be you, making your way

Up mountains of difficulty to shining

Temples in which is kept alive that flame

Of truth which burns at the heart of the ark

Of the covenant of being you.

You might, in the forest, hear that falling tree.

You're young, you want to be free, but aren't yet.

You might walk the cow, ride the rocket ship.

You might book the flight, then jump out of the plane.

You might meet a boy named X.  He might say

You don't know me, nor do I know you.