A Head Back Snapper from Pangofornia

The above painting is William de Kooning's "Woman 1". The style is Abstract Expressionism, where subjective liberties are taken with recognizable forms to enhance the personal view of the artist. I believe, he and his wife were divorcing at the time of his "Woman" paintings.



The photo above, of a 100 year old prostitute's lair, located under the stage of the Bird Cage Theatre, in Tombstone Arizona, inspired this poem. Abstract Expressionism with image word forms, rather than painted forms, and composed to enhance the subjective expression of the writer, of what must have been practiced in this room.

A Head Back Snapper From Pangofornia

Heels toes rubber flaps crushed old spider legs
into painless cement squares aligned to hovels,
jade heated, showing off cotton lined boundaries
scorned, bruised, dented, punched and waxed.

Blanched, sponge grinding souls amid banana peels,
away from armed patterns into ruptured chagrin.
A distant revenant, ever bending bounteous host
gripped cradled brown feathers split on crags.

Lost across thin chilled wallpaper heart thorns,
turned sore fugitive against born muscle marrow.
Specious rolled until spacious, fragile animated,
while a clear rising easy warmed vitality surfaced.