This curvy horse

will gallop in your dreams.
The fruit so fat,

the watermelon splits

with its own weight.
Can that parrot even fly?

The squishy hands

pluck the strings of the guitar?
The dancers’ heft

makes a slow music.
Family portraits:

the baby adults

hold adult babies,

cross-eyed, porcine.
Nudes with thighs so thick

and pubis small;

oblate bronze

pleading for touch.
Franco like a weird uncle

dressing up and watching himself

in the mirror.


Notes:

This references several sculptures and paintings by Colombian artist Fernando Botero,

including ‘Horse’, ‘Still life with Fruit’, ‘Guitarra’, ‘The Dancers’, ‘The Pinzon Family’,

‘Odalisque’, ‘Franco’.