Claude Cahun
Bald as an egg
naked and ageless
negative.
Your eagle’s beak,
your Buddhist’s ear
the shorn
vulnerability of your nape
shot by a flash.
Marcel Moore behind the lens
finger poised
you pose
your onyx eye
forbidding judgement
daring us to meet it.
Sarah Parker is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University who has recently returned to writing poetry. She is the author of The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity (Routledge, 2014).