“We are the Green Nudes” by Zachary Johnson

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in Gratz Park. I am holding a sailboat, smiling
at your perky breasts. You perch—serenely enthralled
swatting the Fifth Third Bank away from the Carnegie
Center into cumulous clouds all shrouded in ash

leaves. Here, in Gratz Park, without regrets, I would have
loved you—frozen within this Fountain Dedicated
to Youth—forever. We as ice; old copper. Our image
—a gift to the children of Lexington. Our offering

—Eros over broken water pipes that surge
like tapering piss-streams while pursed-lipped
fogies traipse around and admire us. Trapped
in endless adolescence.

for JML

-Zachary Johnson

221 thoughts on ““We are the Green Nudes” by Zachary Johnson”

  2. dgatsos

    Excellent on many levels – sound, image, diction. I love writing about statues and what they must be thinking, feeling. Specially like how you stuck Dedicated inside Fountain of Youth.

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