(Peter Legierse 1981)
Handed over to
Take a seat, back straight,
Looking at
Anything,
-Croquied boyfriend's find
-Envisioning mine,
-Outstretched neck
-Carried head;
Chair's wood hard, basement's
Ceiling low, white, square
Panels, packed:
Art; paint; foil;
-Extended shoulders,
-Collar, ears, head's dome,
-Eyebrows, eyes,
-Nose, mouth lines;
Scratching soldiered on
In storage squalor,
Unrestrained
Eyeballing,
-Tactile red and blue
-T-shirt stripes spelled out
-Unalligned
-Casual;
Water tongued under
Door, followed by mop
Sounds, knock, mop
Head, handle,
-Dollop thinned allowed
-Appropriation,
-Unquenched, a
-Prurience;
Spirited defense
Launched: 'No flood, small leak,'
Calloused hands
Made a bowl,
-Ferreted out strokes
-Curls merited in
-Tangible
-Disclosure;
Two women moseyed
Pushing laundry carts,
Spanglish soaked
Through marled shoes,
-Black sculpted, careened
-Tan, crenellated
-Face, plumage
-Ensnarement;
Doomsday work boots thumped
Overhead, dragging
Toppled trove
In paused spurts,
-Supple cartilage,
-Inflexible bone,
-Saddled with
-Prominence;
Pipes rattled, plaster
Jostled, recumbent
Objet d'art
Slammed in place,
-Red lips wormed under
-Nostrils, smirk carved cheeks
-Parodied
-Docile seal;
Marauders hammered,
Drilled release from studs
Relics of
Possession,
-Drama's retentive
-Oeufs en cocotte, fixed
-Ovals served
-Pivoted;
Rustlers bivouacked
For bovine herding,
Muscled what
Not lassoed,
-Brushed on parcels fused,
-Lemon triad grazed,
-Recalling
-Sea green ground;
Drawing beckoned a
Complete absorption,
Segued to
Resemblance,
-Fecund gnawing where
-Ellipsis stopped short,
-Conviction
-Continued;
Ground floor studio
Begrudgingly scaled,
Modified
By four walls,
-Cliff's Notes concision
-Figured life's span for
-Commissioned
-Coterie;
Knob jiggled, handheld,
Notarized floorplans
Waltzed in, tapped,
Pipes followed,
-Configuration
-Assimilated
-On mental
-Sketchpad sheet;
Index motioned up,
Down, knuckles knocked on
Plaster, valve
Bled in pail,
-Likenesses clustered,
-Each buckle popped a
-Labyrinth to
-Patronise;
Model, discharged from
Post, wrested visage
Ownership,
Cajoled grin,
-When told, extracted
-Vernissage, drying
-On easel,
-Self-effaced.
18 February 2019
