AN EKPHRASIS POEM FOR FRIDA KAHLO

"Unos cuantos piquetitos. Frida Kahlo" by candymar is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

"Unos cuantos piquetitos by Frida Kahlo (1934)"

by Diana Torres

She’s

not the first and

surely

will not

be the last

that ends up

scattered

and

maimed

and

tethered

between

life and death

because of

love

or at least

that’s what

they

always say it is

it’s always

they

and

him and his and he

and they believe

it

rather than seeing what’s in the frame

and outside of it

too

the life that gives

the life that spills

the life that pours

out from

her mouth

or rather the blood

dribbling directly from

the knife

that snips and clips and

nips her in the bud.

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Diana Torres is from borderland El Paso, Tx. She studies English at New Mexico State University and is one of DiN's poetry editors.