Abstract
Five Images from Pablo Picasso’s Vollard Suite
1. Au bain (At the Bath)
Temporarily washed of myself by art—scrubbed of intimacy and chastened by the cleansing—and in solitude, despite him, gathered in the metronome of my heartbeat. I’m solid and fleshly in his eyes—he sketches even as I shrug his watching—and my girlhood is prone: summers stretch under my skin with brushed lagoons. His gestures absorb me until I live behind his wet eyes; his gaze washes back and forth like sea on shingle; his hands run like water over the tooth of his paper. I listen to the drip, drip of how he construes me.
1. Au bain (At the Bath)
Temporarily washed of myself by art—scrubbed of intimacy and chastened by the cleansing—and in solitude, despite him, gathered in the metronome of my heartbeat. I’m solid and fleshly in his eyes—he sketches even as I shrug his watching—and my girlhood is prone: summers stretch under my skin with brushed lagoons. His gestures absorb me until I live behind his wet eyes; his gaze washes back and forth like sea on shingle; his hands run like water over the tooth of his paper. I listen to the drip, drip of how he construes me.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | Five Prose Poems |
| Media of output | Online |
| Publisher | The Ekphrastic Review |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Place of Publication | Canada |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Publication series
| Name | The Ekphrastic Review |
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| Publisher | The Ekphrastic Review |