Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Joan McNerney

 

Night fishing at Antibes

—Pablo Picasso, 1939

Museum of Modern Art, NYC




Night Fishing at Antibes


What sort of night is this?

Demons are loose.  How 

diabolically the sun shines

on this green ocean.


Is all the world upside down?

Fish fly in mountains while

respectable ladies bicycle

on rooftops


Look! A fisherman has struck

his spear into a whale,

That will make a nice stew!


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