How Did We Find Our Love? Comments

Early and late, throughout his long career, Picasso returned the subject of one person watching over the sleep of another. Regardless of the style - realistic, sentimental, avant-garde, monstrous - this subject has always moved me, and your poem here gives voice to those images, makes them as real as everyday life and as wondrous as a married love which has prevailed to inspire us even in these vexed times.