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Frida<\/h2>\n

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The blue house has a courtyard, and gourds, and fat Aztec bitch-goddesses with stone bellies.<\/p>\n

The column is a cracked spine of steel resting in traction.<\/p>\n

The fetus has a flower, the fetus is a plant with one root that\u2019s buried in a skeleton.<\/p>\n

The nursemaid has a shredded breast.\u00a0 She wears a mask.<\/p>\n

The husband has a too-hungry dick.<\/p>\n

The child wears a crown.<\/p>\n

The child died and was not cured by an ex-voto sentiment.<\/p>\n

The mother isn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n

The mother has a fissured womb, a desert, a cracked landscape of dried blood and dust.<\/p>\n

The father pokes in its dry bed.<\/p>\n

The monkey licks a tit.\u00a0 She put it there to say my dead child<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The parrots suckle on sad nipples, chafed and dark.<\/p>\n

Frida says This is me.\u00a0 Look at this paint.<\/i><\/p>\n

Frida lays flat on a floating bed, draped in steel vines, without hope.<\/p>\n

She is a whole melon, splayed and seedless.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jim Mancinelli<\/strong><\/span> is the founder\/moderator of the Moveable Beats Reading Series<\/em> in Philadelphia.\u00a0 He has published two chapbooks, Primer<\/em>, and In Deep<\/em>.\u00a0 His most recent work is entitled The Bartimeus Poems<\/em> for which he also did the drawings.\u00a0 His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review<\/em>, Philadelphia Poets<\/em>, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts<\/em>, Sea Change<\/em>, Mad Poets Review<\/em>, Fox Chase Review, <\/em>and issues of Poetry Ink<\/em>, an anthology of Philadelphia poets. He has been a featured reader on Live from Kelly Writer\u2019s House<\/em>.\u00a0 He was a finalist in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, judged by Mark Doty, in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frida   The blue house has a courtyard, and gourds, and fat Aztec bitch-goddesses with stone bellies. The column is a cracked spine of steel resting in traction. The fetus has a flower, the fetus is a plant with one root that\u2019s buried in a skeleton. The nursemaid has a shredded breast.\u00a0 She wears a … <\/p>\n

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