Michelangelo's Shoulder

Copyright (c) 2003 by John Moncure Wetterau
Michelangelo's Shoulder
John Moncure Wetterau
(c) copyright 2003 by John Moncure Wetterau.
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Some of these stories first appeared in Archipelago and The Paumanok Review. Cover drawing: Shan by Finn.
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Michelangelo's Shoulder
It dawned hot in Georgia. Don rubbed his head and blinked. He got out of bed and paused before a makeshift easel where a drawing, taped to a board, showed a woman sitting on a park bench. She was large, dressed in layers of multi-colored cotton. She reminded him of the Renoir woman in her plush living room, the dog sprawled at her feet, but she was smarter. The line across her eyebrows and tapering along her jaw was right. He'd left out a lot, but that didn't matter. If what was there was true enough, you knew the rest—like a Michelangelo shoulder emerging from stone.