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Self-portrait With Monkeys.(Poem)

Quadrant

| January 01, 2003 | Petit, Pascale | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MONKEYS 
after Frida Kahlo 
 
   It's on days like these-- 
   when the plaster cast has come off, 
   that I need to paint my monkeys 
   next to the strelitzia flower. 
 
   It's on a morning like this-- 
   when I can feel the air 
   with every hair of my skin, 
   when all the pores 
   can smell the green fires 
   in the veins of leaves, 
   these leaves long as my back, 
   sturdily fibbed. 
 
   The four monkeys 
   are my twenty limbs 
   can pick up tubes of paint with their tails 
   and pass me the juiciest colours. 
 
   My spine-- 
   my green flexible spine 
   has a tail and ...
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