“Breaking up of the Duncan” by Kevin C Chadwick

Sir Frank Brangwyn, The Breaking Up of the Duncan, n.d. Gift of the Class of 1910, 1930. Collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, founded as Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

after Sir Frank Brangwyn’s The Breaking Up of the Duncan

Once all mighty
once so grand
now tethered
now scrap
a hollow carcass
of mere bones
slowly being lowered
to waiting hands