Willem de Kooning. Figure in Landscape VI (1980)
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH IMAGINARY BROTHER
after Willem de Kooning
Eventually the “imaginary brother”
becomes a wife or a lover, a daughter
or a wife. A “Woman Sitting” (1943)
is sitting in the middle of a war.
The breast that is showing
does not appear to be loved.
It lives in a society of thieves:
no hands. Even the pink lady
isn’t pink, she’s a head full of teeth. Now
it’s 1948. Painters may not be trembling,
but the world is. A secretary
turns over like a piece of furniture,
her paint running upward impossibly
from the face. She’ll do anything you say.
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