Salome by Cameron Morse
—after Caravaggio’s John in the Wilderness at the Nelson-Atkins The Baptist as a teen virgin, lambskin draped over his cherubic genitals, rests in a tree trunk, his dark gaze directing me beyond the frame to the halter top and torn jeans of an art student standing near enough for him to scent her body spread. Like a serial killer, he feasts his eyes upon her. … Continue reading Salome by Cameron Morse