Artwork

Ginger Rogers did it

backwards and in heels

but the dentist does

it in reverse inside a

cramped one-doored

room with no windows

using tiny mirrors

miniature saws

scrawny bent probes

and dainty drills

sometimes taking

so long I wonder if he

is signing his work.

Naida Lavon

June 3, 2022

Manchester University Poetry class

Assignment:

we were given three photos and were

to write a poem about one of them

I chose the photo of dentist's tools