Meeting & Old Maids - Varo and Carrington
- Wren Jones
- Apr 17
- 1 min read
Meeting by R. Varo
Leonora,
Open the small box
I’ll stare back at you
together again
both swathed in blue
Hard to know,
where each begins,
it's me, it's you
could both be true?
The Old Maids by L. Carrington
Remedios,
We sip and stand
our Sunday best,
these unreal times
together, rest
our younger self
so small! so bright!
we made a nest
fed ourselves right
with seeds and cake
ideas and paint,
our laughter, art
proliferates.
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NaPrWriMo Prompt: The surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington moved to Mexico during the height of World War II, where they began a life-long friendship. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem themed around friendship, with imagery or other ideas taken from a painting by Carrington, and a painting by Varo.
