Melissa is hosting Poetics Tuesday ~ Picasso and Summertime are the theme.
Picasso ~ "Figures at the Seaside" ~ 1931
It's Sunday at the seashore
the beach is all elbows and angles
Helen adjusts her swimsuit
[held together by sheer optimism]
her breasts now located somewhere
in the vicinity of her left knee
Benjy sunburned in hexagons
poses like an abstract god
one knee jutting east
his elbow forming a perfect
right angle to nowhere
[he says it helps with arthritis]
Picasso would have loved them
bodies like broken furniture
rearranged for joy
laughing, snorting, wheezing
a symphony of age and sunscreen
and for a moment they are
angles and light, perfect subjects
in an imperfect world
sunburned, silly, entirely alive