Protean Position: Sitting
I admire her self-possession and her imagination and, as the poet stresses, her ability to sit very still. Here are the concluding stanzas to her portrait. We are captivated by her swift transformations.
[...]Gwendolyn Brooks Bronzeville Boys and Girls
First she is an ancient queen
In pomp and purple veil.
Soon she is a signing wind,
and, next, a nightingale.
How fine to be Narcissa,
A-changing like all that!
While sitting still, as still, as still
As anyone ever sat!
And so for day 2257
16.02.2013
