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Journal/ November 13, 2014

# Poet Ant the Rant

Nano Sculpture Poetry Art Criticism 

A short poem by Ant the Rant explores the fate of Jonty Hurwitz's nano-sculptures, tiny artistic marvels lost to a single breath or the hair of a nostril.

#### writes about the Lost Hurwitz Nano Sculptures

This poem was written

On a pinhead

In nanometre

In fonts a miniscule high

The tiniest expression

Of Amazement

Art as vast and brief

As an Imagination

Of Critics, clustered

Around a microscope

Jostling to make

Gargantuan opinions

The world holds its breath

As a priceless collection

Vanishes. Inhaled.

Caught in the hair

Of a sneering nostril

The Mona Lisa smiles

Imperceptibly amused

That we always found her

Smaller than we imagined

As if she knows there is space

In the thickness of

A scant layer of paint

To shape a MicroCosmos

Of smirks and scowls

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