(Another poem from my ekphrastic serices on Artemesia Gentileschi. I wrote this as a strike out poem, but that doesn’t work on the LexPoMo website, so it’s an erasure poem instead.)

                 Gentileschi presents a portrait of women’s power,                      asserting                                 the capacity to                            make her own decisions… 

                Gentileschi makes the servant        woman              participate in the killing.                        It adds a savage realism                                       – it would take two women to kill this brute.   

“Judith Beheading Holofernes” 
TheArtStory.org 
Artemesia Gentileschi Artworks 
Italian Baroque Artist