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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 32: | June 2026 |
| Haibun Story: | 107 words |
By Joshua St. Claire
On Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Bolt
Don’t you want it? A white hand over a red mouth. Don’t you want it? The perfect redness of an unbitten apple. Don’t you want it? The red sun’s yellow diagonal. Don’t you want it? Red blood pushing through pink. Don’t you want it? A red velvet chair broken in a purple darkness. Don’t you want it? Red spread on billowing ivory. Don’t you want it? Skin on skin pink shadows. Don’t you want it? Don’t you want it you want it Don’t you Don’t a key that does not fit o ver and o ver and o ver and o ver
Le Verrou (The Bolt; also known as The Lock), 1777–78
by French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris:
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064766
Image above was downloaded from Wikipedia (28 May 2026):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolt_(Fragonard)
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