WHAT REMAINS Poems by Bernadette K. Geyer Making Stars • Picking Pears • Square Dance at Uncle Johnny’s Farm • Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Pour • Reading Our Histories in the Marks on a Birthing Table • Untitled • What Remains • By and By • Monotype • My First Taste of Grappa • Nectarines • At Balalayka With Peter • Taormina At Night • 4th of July • Midnight in Luzern • Rust • Caravaggio’s Medusa • Feeling Picasso • Inspiration is Finding the Buddha Behind the Buffalo • Salt • All I Wanted Was • Vagaries of Light $8.00 US • 36 pages Copyright © 2001 Argonne House Press. ISBN 1-88761-50-5

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Feeling Picasso

I’m feeling very Picasso today—
all nose and lip,
a crooked, sleepy eye
and one arm hidden
behind my head.
Emotion akimbo
on a canvas of irregularity.

Dysfunctional, I plod along
in stark contrast to my surroundings,
a backdrop of realism
that spits me out, rejects me,
leaves me hanging
by a thin wire
on a pasty-white wall
in an empty room—

strung up for all to see.