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    Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 1912. (Oil on Canvas, 58 inches by 35 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection.) Nude Descending A Staircase Toe upon toe, a snowing flesh, A gold of lemon, root and rind, She sifts in sunlight down the stairs With nothing on. Nor on her mind. We spy beneath the banister A constant thresh of thigh on thigh— Her lips imprint the swinging air That parts to let her parts go by. One-woman waterall, she wears Her slow descent like a long cape And pausing, on the final stair Collects her motions into shape. By X. J. Kennedy

    Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 1912. (Oil on Canvas, 58 inches by 35 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection.)

    Nude Descending A Staircase

    Toe upon toe, a snowing flesh,
    A gold of lemon, root and rind,
    She sifts in sunlight down the stairs
    With nothing on. Nor on her mind.

    We spy beneath the banister
    A constant thresh of thigh on thigh—
    Her lips imprint the swinging air
    That parts to let her parts go by.

    One-woman waterall, she wears
    Her slow descent like a long cape
    And pausing, on the final stair
    Collects her motions into shape.

    By X. J. Kennedy

     
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