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For Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird Artist: Frida Kahlo b. July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico; d. July 13, 1954, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. Title: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird Date: 1940 Click here for more information  My Dear Frida,
Today I listened for the hummingbird but in the planet of eternity—there was only grief and the hummingbird did not come. Usually I am accustomed to disappointment, which like thorns—swathed around my throat, but today I cannot bear it. I am writing to you because your eyes are open and to be alive is to be erect and to be seen and to observe. I also think this is what it means to be human. Frida, what I have known all along is that something was always almost happening, to us to you and to anyone else disappearing. We are only women born in the land of bombs exploding in all the ways that women explode and this is nothing unique. I must tell you, last night a black cat crossed my path and this morning a monkey—the color of tar sang the prettiest song just where the ground began to split I mourned for but a second, because I am sure this is just a sign, I know what it means to be human. "For Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" has been published by The Ekphrastic Review, September 2018
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