Smithereens Press Chapbooks SP8- Dordéan, do Chroí - A Hummingbird, your Heart | Page 23

Lines for Frida Kahlo
"She lived dying" – Andrés Henestrosa, 1925

Between life and death,
Frida lies in her sickbed,
her brows are wild birds
spreading shadowed wings
in the sky above her eye.

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