is Picasso still making art?

not new art administered by his immediate hand

but art you hadn't seen before nor known of,

something recently discovered in that glossy,

outrageously oversized book sitting unopened

on the coffee table next door or ripped-off

as on the cover flap of the Christmas card

sent last year by Auntie Emilia who didn’t know

Picasso from the guy who painted Elvis on velvet

or maybe while passing time on the downtown bus

a young woman climbed aboard from the stop

in front of the public library clutching a takeout

of carnage in Spain, and you thought:

“what in the name of all that’s holy is that?”

you see, not new art, but new to you.

so,–– that’s my question.