“Do not touch this. You will only have troubles and problems.”– Archeologist, Iris Love, to Getty Museum officials on the prospective purchase of the Statue of (arguably) Aphrodite (more likely Persephone)
Pockets line the cobbled truth,rib the spaces,make a body of her.Her head is more ancient,blossomed marbleover platform and clasp.She is composite,incomplete. More of heris tender, absent and stashed.Looters more balletic than godbonded the stones, but shehas long since left them,grown monument to the ripefrom which pours everything.Limestone fossils trace vague lines.All is song, not origin.She wades in out of the riverof the misnomer, a fiction,her pulse the dereliction,gone looting, hunting heartbeat.
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UnknownStatuette of Aphrodite, 300–200 B.C., Terracotta with white slip and polychromy (light blue, pink, red)28.7 × 10.7 cm (11 5/16 × 4 3/16 in.), 71.AD.131The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California