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Picasso’s The Old Guitarist
His right hand hangs forever above the strings
like the hand of Michelangelo’s Adam.
The other grasps the guitar neck like a flare.
His crossed legs weight the bottom
of the canvas. His ragged pants drop
feet like funerary monuments, immovable.
He is a guitar: his legs the base,
his arms the narrower oval.
His neck—broken—bends over his chest.
The finger-touch of God is past, or never was,
and yet this sound hole persists, only masked
by the instrument cradled in his lap,
which holds him from collapse.
With this poem, Sean Keck ’07 represented Boston College at the annual Intercollegiate Poetry Festival, held at the Yawkey Center on April 18. Keck is an English major with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in art history.
