The Order That She Sees
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She is draped across the lintelof the faux-Grecian pillars. She is ina deep sleep, her clothes blood-stained.Supported by two giant feminine hands,she is dead, in fact; tortured to death.
After three days, as in a Hollywood moviewe are above a remote tropical pool.The rotors are deafening, the camerascapture everything from three angles.
She descends, held in two giant, feminine handsand is laid in the warm pool, where she revives.It takes some time. The cameramen are asked to leave.She struggles out of her blood-stained linen,and swims across the pool to the waterfall.
A hush progresses across a beachas she passes in her white linen dress,her body flowing, her head erect,a reproach to torturers everywhere.
She will have no followers.No churches will be built to her memory.Yet as she sits in the beach hut to watchthe sun rise on a flat sea, a telephoto lenswill capture her stillness, and her iconic
image will adorn walls across the globe.But the photographercannot intuit the order that she sees:its paralleled, dancing infinities. [End Page 179]
Philip Casey has published three novels and four collections of poems. He curates Irish Writers Online and Irish Culture Guide. He currently is writing nonfiction and lives in Dublin.
