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Blue Nude, by Julie Kizershot

7/4/2019

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selections from the Blue Nude series, by Henri Matisse (France) 1952.

Blue Nude


rhythms moving lightly
across a page a striped cello suite
performs this dance
of absence

a nude woman
prints on the wall
cuts out what’s unnecessary

paper flowers
blue vases

from the form bodies stretch from
an odd assortment of snips and tucks
reassemble themselves into limbs into grace
a semblance of wholeness
cut into

assembled beauty

make a picture in your mind to appeal to the senses
tell more than a story with what’s missing
what’s missed

unlinked these limbs clasp
an illusion of connection
becoming

amphora
flame
radiant 
form

transformation of shadows
which tower than merge erratic on the wall

flesh in dim light blue veined
translucent
these bodies cradle sparks

in the next room a clear bowl aquarium
holds Chinese fighting fish
a wall between them shields flames

this memory cut from 
childhood cut from 
some other mind scarlet
turquoise the tail feathers of a fish

wet flares
glass shadows

one or two things
to be spoken still    life
slips between blue spaces

red

mangled without walls
shapeless without cutting away

Julie Kizershot

​Julie Kizershot has been published in Rougereau, The Marsh Hawk Review, Bombay Gin, The Sonora Review, 13th Moon, Calyx and others. She currently lives in Jackson Heights Queens and teaches through CUNY. She has her MFA from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
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