Family of Saltimbanques (Paris 1905)
Six figures in a line
Posed against a blue-yellow desert.
They are caught in the middle of nowhere,
In the middle of living.
There is a strong fatman
Ridiculous with his red outfit and crooked hat.
There are two boys,
One holding a barrel, empty as a lost dream,
The other fingering a red scarf
Which is slipping off his shoulder
Like the past.
Harlequin is a strong father,
Clown statesman defying the indifferent desert
Holding
Protecting
His daughter who has eyes only for her basket
Of pale flowers.
The last figure
Is a calmly beautiful woman
Posing like a rose behind glass.
She sits near a pitcher of water
And has never been to the desert.
from Blue Period — Rose Period
homage to Picasso — a sequence of poems
homage to Picasso — a sequence of poems
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