Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman - Phoebe Stuckes
Francesca Woodman
I see my face in everything
perhaps this is my biggest flaw
to always be catching glimpses of myself
dishevelled in car windows shop fronts
the bathrooms of restaurants
narcissus is a white nodding flower
I’m just self obsessed I wonder if I stare
hard enough I might metamorphosize
into another girl slender a bushel of
brown hair over my shoulder powdering
myself with flour or laying down sweetly
with a basket of eels or if like her one morning
short of money and love I might push
my apartment windows wide and step out
unpublished poem, © Phoebe Stuckes 2019, used by permission of the author.