Chronic Pain as Poacher
By Jessie Zechnowitz Lim
after Frida Kahlo’s "El Venado Herrido [The Wounded Deer]"
Frida Kahlo, "El Venado Herrido [The Wounded Deer],” 1946 oil on masonite (public domain)
Jessie Zechnowitz Lim is a florist by day and poet by night living in California on unceded Ohlone land. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Chestnut Review, California Quarterly, Kestrel, The Indianapolis Review, FEED, MER, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Mother Mag, and others.