possibly a heroine or a sexed victim Poem by Inger Elisabeth Hansen

possibly a heroine or a sexed victim, a femaled victim, from a pre-war period,
from a post-war period, she stands there in the black-and-white documentary from a before or after,
from the self-destructive celluloid in a for or against, it depends on the angle, it depends
on the viewpoint, it depends on the angles and the lines that can be drawn between the points,
it depends on the threads that are spun, a web is spun, she is watched through a web
spun over the section of herself, we have her now, we can suck her empty, or is it the eye itself,
the free-flying eye, the glistening, spinning eye, which itself is stuck in the web, sucked empty
like a fly