Georgia O'Keeffe's Nude Series VIII, watercolour, 1917
Her body vibrant blue and sea green edges wavy, skin more porous like a shore that fails to cinch an ocean in place. She sits cross-legged in no visible chair free-floats in chalk-white except for one tiny brush poke smudge above an elbow calculated to convey Yes, there's power in my points my hidden bones. Neither hands nor feet but wide hips. Her frame, planes of colour that overlap in darker patches. One diagonal arm reaches for something outside the frame. The other touches her blank face. Deep red throat and mouth-- her voice centers. Where her heart, areolas, and ovaries stow—golden pink. Legs fused into a tail. She's morphing back into a water woman. Karen George Karen George is a retired computer programmer obsessed with art and photography, working on a poetry collection inspired by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Emily Carr paintings. She’s author of five chapbooks, and two poetry collections from Dos Madres Press, Swim Your Way Back (2014) and A Map and One Year (2018), and her work appears at Adirondack Review, Louisville Review, Naugatuck River Review, Sliver of Stone, America Magazine, and Still: The Journal. She reviews poetry at http://readwritepoetry.blogspot.com/, and is fiction editor of the online journal Waypoints: http://www.waypointsmag.com/. Her website is: http://karenlgeorge.snack.ws/.
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