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    Poetry, by V. Shayne Frederick

    Contributor: V. Shayne Frederick

    • November 18, 2013

    Creative

    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

    VShayne photo_Durrock Knox
    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.

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