Dual Coast

The Broken Column Painted by Frida Kahlo by Deborah Guzzi

You thought me spineless
so in a fit of anger you tore mine out
bloodless, I rose
sword swallower, strengthened
by my tattered paper edges

The abyss of your barren soul
wrapped me in gauze
shrouded me on parallel
partitions

nailed to the crossbars of your lust
Only mother-me did you revere

all hail the hidden cunt
affixed to the missing cross
white cloaked, virginal, tresses unbound
lay me not across the landscape of your desire

grovel at my shrine