PICASSO, STUDY IN MARROW, Rhonda Poynter

PICASSO, STUDY IN MARROW

Pablo paints me into
Flowers while I
Sleep:

He brings sweet redness from
My flat bones, the
Sickly yellow simply

Brushed away.

Pablo paints me into
Petals that bloom along
Iliac crest,

And stretch for miles, like
Good veins, like the
Perfect painted

Skies.

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Rhonda Poynter