Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge Co-Winner: The Fallen Angel

The Phoenix, The Renaissance, The Renaissance Artwork

Poem by Danielle Kercy ’26 Look at yourself: Your fiery hair, heated with passion, matted from your fight, one-graceful, dancing curls now- interlocked threads of flame grappling and nipping like rabid fiends. Your face, once beautiful, so youthful and smooth, now wrinkled with rage, your pouting lips cowering behind fortified sinews And your eyes, blue…