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| Pablo Picasso's "Fillette à la corbeille fleurie" Credit: Courtesy Christie's via CNN. Christie's sale of a Picasso nude for $115 million kick-started what some experts have been calling "the sale of the century"—over 1,000 works of art and fine objects from the storied collection of the late David and Peggy Rockefeller. On Tuesday night, the first of three auctions in New York achieved a total sale of $646 million for works from the 19th and 20th centuries. —CNN, May 9, 2018 |
an audience of paddles;
she balances herself
on a rose-colored floor;
she weeps for the adults
bidding on her body, seeping
in and out of the walls.
Her hair, uncombed. Her face
reveals a fatherless expression,
and she clutches flowers
that cannot replace
her mother’s coldness.
How much for that basket?
How much for the red towel
one cannot see?
Her eyes, slits of woe,
do not open enough
to fully ever love again.
Bought, she hangs on an avenue
of shallow breaths, inside
a house within
a thousand houses.
Alejandro Escudé published his first full-length collection of poems My Earthbound Eye in September 2013. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis and teaches high school English. Originally from Argentina, Alejandro lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.