the chair, by Catherine Karnitis

Woman in a Hat, by Pablo Picasso (Spain) 1941

the chair
        
she listens with one eye  reflective with
the other  splitting reverie and re-
straint   she listens formally  it’s on-
ly talk  a dream entrances  redolence 
her janus face  lost and locked   tor- 
so chair-like   body planar   you
can lift her  turn her  spin her  blades pro-
pel her   surveilled   she looks inward   hair
in braids  like loaves of bread  disem-
bodied   purchasable   torso    black 
and blue  admired for its lines   designs   
her nails  red claws  her fingers  make a heart-
shaped ball  one hand is free  or tries to be

Catherine Karnitis

Catherine Karnitis: "I am an emerging poet, working on an MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco.  I serve as a Poetry Editor for Invisible City literary journal.  I earned an MA in History at the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Art History at The Ohio State University."