The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Open
After a still life by Frida Kahlo, 1943What becomes of her red
flesh, her cache of pearl seeds
when the white veil lifts?
Skin split open, papaya flesh,
black seeds spilling forth.
Blessed is the fruit….
Watermelon running rivulets
mouth to chin to chest.
The steel blade carving:
a pink studded with oval
seeds, a crack of crisp rind.
Copyright 1998, Donna J. Waidtlow
Donna J. Waidtlow’s poems have
been published in Avocet, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chaminade
Literary Review, Frog Pond, Modern Haiku, Pontoon,
and TAPJoE. Her chapbook, A Woman Named Wife, was published
by Floating Bridge Press in 1997.
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