Nun Body (a back-to-teaching-at-art-school poem)

Nun Body

Norbert Schwontkowski, thank you
for "Nun in the Damp", a title
you dropped yet she is a religious
in a fugitive swamp of chalk,
anti-fouling, copper paint,
linseed oil, iron chloride, turpentine oil,
water and tea.
You concocted a "fundamental source"
and squished her in up to her neck.
She doesn't look too bad off,
can't raise that ruler to swat
Billy Tripodi, can't
answer the black phone
calls from God.