Self-portrait as Frida Kahlo – by Katherine Brabon

RUNNER-UP IN THE GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2020/2021

I tell her about Frida Kahlo her right leg thinner than the other my left leg / thinner than the other. A pebble of obsession in me a need for similarity of / any limb. The slow ebb circulation in her leg my knee is concrete I say / this my friend shifts one leg over the other. Frida saying I must have full / skirts and long, now that my sick leg is so ugly. I say my sick leg is so / ugly my sick leg is so ugly, says my friend …