THE MUSEUM ISSUE Kendra Kopelke   Woman in the Sun Hopper put me here to look at something else. He put me here like a candle to ignite the room, he put me here like a working lighthouse. He put me here like a secretary and dictated the sun. Light clings to my thighs and hips my breasts blinking stars. He put a burning cigarette in my hand like an article of clothing I would never put on. He put me here like a mirror in a funhouse and watched shadows pool on my skin. The dark blanket Hopper put on the unmade bed undulates like the green green hills he put in the window.     Kendra Kopelke has published three books of poems: Eager Street; Carpe Diem, Ants; and Bladderville. She is co-editor and co-founder of Passager and Passager Books, a journal and press dedicated to new older writers. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. "Women in the Sun" is one of 20 dramatic monologues written in the voices of the women in Hopper's paintings in a manuscript called Hopper's Women.   Published in Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2009.