From
Reading Room/7:
Blue Panther
—Donald Gropman
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BLUE PANTHER
Outside in the parking lot
fifty years ago
a woman who will become
Susan Sontag
paces back and forth
between a row of parked cars
and the side of a three story
red brick building;
her face is blue,
dark dull blue
and so is her hair
hanging limply down
the back of her long
shapeless coat
which she holds
wrapped around her slender body
with her arms around her waist
and she wears no socks
inside her white tennis shoes,
the pink soles of which
make no sound
on the blacktop
pacing back and forth,
blue panther
in a cage
of intellect
and mute ambition
before she was
who she became
fifty years ago.
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