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In an ekphrastic poem, a poet explores a work of visual art, such as a drawing, sculpture, or painting. Robert Hayden's 1994 poem "Monet's Waterlilies," for example, meditates on Claude Monet's 1899 painting Water Lilies; Sasha Pimentel's 2017 poem "The Kiss," ______ takes a painting as its subject: Gustav Klimt's 1908 work The Kiss.