When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed
- When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed, was it
- a red line
- or an amorphous shadow
- obscured by distance? Tea
- with strawberry creme
- early autumn
- splattered across the summery canvas
- in meticulous detail
- who tucked the gardenia above whose ear,
- and whose hand felt like
- fury? whose hip
- chiseled pyramids
- or broadened where continents met?
- whose scars
- were sinuous paths
- to a womb riddled with miles
- hungry for freedom
- bearing pain, not children?
About the Author
Photo credit: Durrock Knox
V. Shayne Frederick: V. Shayne Frederick is a poet and musician based in Philadelphia. He owes part of his sensibility to his North Carolina roots, his study of Jazz, and his affinity for all things liberation. Frederick’s self-published work explores the art of concision and the bravery of truth.
