WOMAN TO WOMAN

 

           This artist Tamara de Lempicka born in Poland 1898
had quite a wild and exciting life for a lady of her time. Her art is collected by Madonna, Jack Nicholson and others.  Madonna has lent her art pieces and they can even be glimpsed in some of her videos. The artist claimed to be bi-sexual.  The painting above titled 'Spring' is one of my favorites and inspired the poem I share here.  You can read more about this artist here

                                     WOMAN TO WOMAN

                You come to me across the room 

                Not out of passion but something stronger 

                like the old tom cat at four a.m

                who crawls on my chest for comfort

                and from that howl and unable to breath

                I open one eye to meet his cat eye

                round like a saucer

                fling him at the moon

                to crash that old wicker chair you salvaged

                from Gables Market 

                instantly sorry

                see him sulk through the corners to darkness  

                Now here you are

                whimpering urgent hard against my hip

                as a lovers erection

                worse

                you like some shadow of childhood

                shiver through your thin cotton gown

                I teeter on the edge of sleep wondering

                what

                what is it about the night that makes us too

                loose our claws

                and being proud

                of never making the same mistake twice

                I curl in behind you mouth to your hair

                caress your back woman to woman

                whisper that tomorrow being Sunday                

                I'll help you plant your roses

                       poem by annie