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  Kay Poema

The End of Summer

9/12/2017

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   for Hamilton's Pin-up
Artist: Richard Hamilton
b. 1922, London England; d. 2011 London England
Title: Pin-up
Date: 1961

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​Each summer,
I pretend I’m not tired.
I roll my dread
into the pale nude mornings
& stretch,
my breasts waiting for me,
counting the slits in my heart,
the bric-brac field
of broken,
the anywhere,
everywhere
feelings of empty,
the mistaken lyrics
escaping my throat
& the people
who swore they knew me.

Each summer
I tire
and begin without shade.
My body erect and torn
in halves
singing from my belly.

I reach somewhere,
no where
closer
to find an unfilled space
inside of me,
where there is
laughter and rest.

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An Abstraction of Your Life

9/8/2017

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              for Matisse’s Italian Woman
​Artist: Henri Matisse
b. 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France; d. 1954, Nice, France
Title: The Italian Woman
Date: 1916
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​Frequently   affliction shapes you    lips a line     unbroken       do not give your hands
their freedom    he glides over you  to sleep on his side    of the earth       and
your tears are afraid    to terrorize his fists.
 
How will your shoulders bear        the love and war         resounding
an exactness      of  pale     regrets     but of course
he is there with you.


Your thirst is deep        not real            you double         your doubts      in the ruffles
of your life        jaded    as the three buttons       on an unshapely blouse
worn by such an             unlovely woman
 
Fists     lips     freedom  suffocate you         beneath the heaviness         of your breasts


 
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