from this week, 1971 (I was 26)
(for Sandra, while modeling)
nude poem #1
Line and form
from surface and substance
Drawing a nude is a process of elimination
and another of translation,
Look and what is it?
get it out
or get it down
nude poem #2
Body bulk demonstrated
mass of flesh and gravity
underscored
nude poem #3
When does the student become artist?
When does he legitimize the model’s nudity?
When does a zen koan have answer?
nude poem #4
All my poems are nudes
and some of them have names
separate from their parts
or gestaltic sum of them
I have defined for you
feet shoulders and forearm
but you see only thighs
and utter praise of my substance
I have posed forms
athletic graceful and constant
but you see only a reflection
of your own transient sensuality
nude poem #5
How you sit there
feigning unaware
just as I ignore
all I knew of you before
to turn your body into words
Out the window
night birds cut your curves in air
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