John Biscello

She, the Menken,

Byronic in flame

and force, mastered

the art of social media

long before technology caught up,

selling the illusion

of a man/

woman

bound naked to a horse;

she, the salacious Mazeppa,

incited a modern storm,

long before the 20th century caught up.

Adah Isaacs Menken, actress, poet, painter, 1835-1868