The Dove

(Tribute to Frida Kahlo: Artist, activist, aspiring mother)

Hollow 

Bones

Could not 

make you Light, 

enough to soar

Out of your 

pain(ted)

Cage, that 

ribbed corset

torturously

supporting

your tender

frame, broken

Heart, Mourning

with each

pulsing

reminder

of the emptiness 

empty-

nest

within...

So many

would-be

fledglings

free 

falling

onto 

clean

canvas.
——Art by Frida Khalo