Rodin

His sculptures are flowers of
sky- and earth-sickness.
His sculptures are disquieting and undressed
sometimes even nudities,
magnificent and giant vines
with well-groomed beards.
His sculptures are echoes of everlastingness,
braziers asleep
on dead men's hands,
medusas with patent-leather button-boots
from the century of waltzes.
They are an immense afterbirth of the Renaissance,
a project of erotomachia*
to confirm origin,
far from the mechanical erotomachia of our century.


*  Greek compound word for a "sex war": DEFINITION: "Battle of the sexes" 
(Men versus Women versus Men): power-struggle, or a battle of wills between
a lover and a reluctant beloved 

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