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gentileschi's "judith slaying holofernes" 

He
                        on        the edge of the bed
[me]
                        pushing           with a hand
                        to prevent
[him]  
                                     Lifting
                        his face
I                       pulled his hair              tight
              and
                                     with [a] knife
                                     removed a piece of flesh
             It is true
             it is true
             it is true
             it is true
 
I                       have killed him
                                    best I could
Picture
Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1611-1612. Oil on canvas. Museo di Capodimonte via
​
Wikimedia Commons.
Words, other than those bracketed, are excerpted from Artemisia Gentileschi’s courtroom testimony against her rapist, as found in Mary D. Garrard’s Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art.

M.G. Leibowitz was born and raised in White Plains, New York. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Journal. She is the recipient of CALYX Journal’s 2016 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2018 Geballe Prize for Writing, and the 2018 Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize. Michal is an undergraduate at Stanford University.
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