Claire Schwartz is the author of bound (Button Poetry, 2018) and the poetry editor of Jewish Currents.
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Object Lesson
You learn to recognize beauty by its frame.
In the gilded hall, in the gilded frame, her milky neck
extended as she peers over the drawn bath. A target,
a study, a lesson: she requires you
to be beautiful. You should save her, no...