2004-09-21

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Picasso's Weeping Woman, with its haggard, fractured features and clash of colours, made me want to give that haunting face a voice. In the end I wrote in the voice of Dora Maar, the woman on whose face Weeping Woman is based:

They say that instead of a brush
he used a knife on me -
a savage geometry.
But as I say, look again,
this is the closest
anyone has got to the pain.