Giuseppe Arcimboldo


Of late Jeanne has been photographing

Fruit and vegetables and their kitchen friends

Which I find rather charming eccentric and puzzling

I supposed it to be her take on Dead Nature/Nature morte

But then she dyed her hair green and began collecting images

Of her mons pubis peeking over her brightly coloured pants

It is all about art she said to me the randomness of the eye

For my birthday she gave me a book of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s work

Which up to an hour ago I was reading on my local railway station

Until I was arrested for viewing fruit and vegetable pornography