Woman in the Tree

Symbolic Landscape
Diego Rivera

There is a woman in the tree,
a woman slain on this spot where
the knife and glove of the murderer lay,
her remains discarded in rapture.

Her breasts are prominently displayed,
molded to the shape of the barren bristle cone
which lifts the body as though was frozen
in the moment of death and ecstasy.

Her dress is petrified, yet its lines flow down,
smoothing the wizened bark.  Her heads,
for she has two gaping necks, are tidily
cut off and out of view.

There are worms with tentacle sphincters,
watching the scene, laughing atop fake rocks
under a cloudy moon.