linchpin (this is a portrait of my mouth if I say so)
By Pascalle Burton
[not published yet]
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Portrait of the artist's father' 1910.
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.