TEARS / PABLO PICASSO & A PORTRAIT OF
DORA MAAR
I violate self-satisfied
by the perfection of distortion[abstract] her three
breastsround hole in a childless bodyshe is
butchered cryingI love the blurred tracks from
eyes too close togetheryes a nose for an ear
a doormat some women areand the other Dora
thinks I left for Françoise women are machines
for suffering but the real Dora Maar[alternate ending]
my muse is here the woman in tears always
two-dimensionally mine so each day in one way
or another I back her against a wall gaze at those
bank-fish eyes crazed body [angle] and hang her
then boldly slash her with my name Picasso
TAKE TWO:FILM STUDIES, Susan Terris (Omnidawn, 2017)
First published in Southern Review