Disconnected Picasso paints my insides with the outsides of his weeping woman: her violet, cobalt, tourmaline hair sweeps to jigsaw colours cutting deep. White skewers, green clamps, blue creases, purple, yellow pleat her face into angles that say don’t touch. Such a lonely place. I want to ask her if she is clenching her handkerchief with her teeth to express grief, or if those three green fingers claw at it, as two yellow eyes of fingernails look on with that jagged white stovepipe of a thumb. What rips at a mind like that? What can repress it? Energy weeps in colours chiseled into shapes—they cut the chords in the throat. Kitty Jospé Reprinted from Kitty Jospé's 2012 chapbook, Mosaicq, with permission from Finishing Line Press. Kitty Jospé: "After retiring as French professor, I completed a low-residency MFA at Pacific University in 2009, and teach ekphrastic writing in summer to teens at our local literary center which is a short walk from the University of Rochester museum, Memorial Art Gallery where I have been a docent since 1998. I also give lectures on bringing poetry alive by careful study of art."
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KITTY JOSPE
6/6/2017 09:13:29 am
"Disconnected" first appeared in a chapbook by Kitty Jospé, called "Mosaicq" published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. They have given permission for this reprint .
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Emily Osgood
6/7/2017 09:38:20 pm
Your poem and Picasso's painting should always be together.
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