Frida, the movie by Salma Hayek and Julie Taymor
FRIDA KAHLO (RIVERA)
Freed by her fractures, SHE, incising
Rivera’s otherness as his Aztec Santa,
Isis of Coyoacán, a lush jungle
Dadaed with open wounds and blood
Allas of butterbirds and lexicosex,
Kudzus of riveting red rios and cañons,
A vein to her bruised body and open
Heart of Mexico’s arta y misteria,
Lady of dry deserts and barren wombs,
Ortho-psychic in wondrous vias
(Reading her [he]art, the gargantuan feeder,
Insouciant breeder, was as a
Votary, her exceptional friend, so
Every pain belong her-belong him, and
Rode a budding Bodhi burr a tiempo to tun-
A) BLOOMED like herb cactus, plush and prickly.
This acrostic poem was first published in Creative Woman, Miami Dade College, 2008; and was subsequently published in the Ann Arbor Review, Fall 2009. I highly recommend both the biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera and the movie by Julie Taymor (one of the most imaginative and original directors in the world).
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