Jacqui Rozdoba's Poetry

A Kiss on the Shore by Moonlight - Edvard Munch

A Kiss on the shore

a singular kiss.

Silent

Exposed.

No tidal surge

nor torrent of tongues

gushing from granite,

driven, granular,

naked

Sharp as marron grass

but a solitary perpendicular I.

a chaste embrace

melancholy as the moon

Figure in movement  - Francis Bacon

Emerging?

or disappearing?

Both

and so little time

between

Hours defined

by grey

human frame

A door?

or scaffold?

Both

and so little space

between

A grotesque

constrained

at the point

of decision,

Canvas bound

and bound

away from darkness.

      Transfixed

      I lose balance

      my mouth

      lurches open

      and your

      raw howl

      erupts

      from my

      belly

Portrait of Jacqueline - Pablo Picasso

If you didn’t know better

you’d say he couldn’t paint hands

but you note the tension

between canvas and

thick black strokes,

the pitchfork set in the

lower right corner

and then the

capable hands,

piano keys,

to work sweet

music on him

the horizontal comma

of a well shaped brow,

smudged and

hinting at the other side,

poised like a newt

newly become,

the tilt of the head,

tight neat lips

Her steady gaze

demands no nonsense

It is unmistakably

Jacqueline