Picasso’s Jacqueline
This is the day Picasso
painted Jacqueline over
& over, settling her in-
side the outside breathing
air away from his mind.
This is the night Picasso
painted Jacqueline over
& over, forty doors or
more he moved through
to find her, only to see
she wasn’t there.
She was a knife buried in-
side his mind. He laid
himself upon the floor.