Takedown Portraits

Takedown Portraits
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Chris 5 April 2018


                                 (Chris)



                           (Chris 1983)


Paid to play, have sex-
'Perform'- filmed release
Money shot,
Sign me up,
     -Artist's charm, come to
     -My studio so
     -I can paint
     -Your portrait;
Met director, filled
Out application,
Got naked,
Photographed,
     -Draw horizontal,
     -Delve with bare fingers
     -Breathing musk,
     -Pillar's brine;
Had to get hard, he
Measured it, length, width,
Asked about
Positions,
     -Pressured assertions
     -Fluids, plied within,
     -Chink embraced
     -Or betrayed;
Shared how strategic
Partnerings pump sales,
Who tops, who
Gives it up,
     -Coin flip, flip-flop, plunge,
     -Viscosity thins
     -Perception's
     -Clarity;
So 'Chris,' pizza boy,
Bike messenger, a
Plumber's son,
Delivered,
     -Fervid believers
     -Artfully engaged
     -In parterre
     -Rendering;
Blue balls abstinence
At filling station
Imposed by
Attendant,
     -Enemas installed,
     -Imodium ™ prized
     -By wafer
     -Agnostic;
Food, curbed at midnight,
Swirls, cinnamon, whole
Bean, deep fried,
For others,
     -Cinderellas weaned
     -On outsized nipples
     -Slide unfurled,
     -Slippered, tight;
Worked out, showered, flat
To ministrations
Of stylist's
Scissors, creams,
     -Flat, sensoring flung
     -Around, pulled apart,
     -For held up,
     -Scrutinized;
Exhibitionists,
Crew gawps, camera
Clicks, cocks out,
Crudely stroked,
     -Unit utilized
     -As capstone owner's
     -Pawn, queening
     -Future play;
Exhilaration
Wilts, withering heat,
Foisted lens,
Lights, anus,
     -Sweat equity poured
     -Mopped religiously
     -By fluffers
     -On bent knees;
Sets, reps, muscles worked
On, trainer spots lifts,
Equipment
Spritzed, and wiped,
     -Artist instills flow
     -To line: accidents;
     -Dead ends, and
     -Diversions;
Eruptions walked back,
Spark offs- 'Only you
Can prevent'-
Cauterized,
     -Corruptions bled through,
     -Coffee stain, finger
     -Smudge, crayon,
     -Pencil marks;
Offensive lockdown,
Lookouts staged, sound checked,
Actors in
Positions,
     -Chair faced out amid
     -Angled canvasses,
     -Stacked paint cans,
     -Clear bottles;
Coke-bottle lenses
Splotched, bottom suctions
Length in slaps
Reddened cheeks,
     -Red suffused backwoods
     -Shoulders crown, siphons
     -Liminal
     -Sapling doubts;
Sublime contractions,
Shackled, unshackled,
Vision blurs
With the arcs,
     -OLO-growth's bulbous knots
     -Ring around groaning
     -Barks at bends
     -Of stripling.

5 April 2018










Ken Kosillian and Jim Kessling 6 December 2017


                        (Ken Kosillian?)




                      (Ken Kosillian, 1982)



                      (Jim Kessling, 1982)



                     (Jim Kessling, 1982)


Eyes stare unblinking,
Inscrutable, thoughts
Revolve in
Cylinder,
     -Burial shovel
     -Scrapes recalcitrant
     -Crust, working
     -At edges;
Nape warms, shirt's collar
Hedges, throat's downward
Visible
V first play,
     -Clay embedded rock
     -Impedes inroads, each
     -Squelch marking
     -Inch achieved;
Dabs, brushed strokes perceived,
Canvas flat rustles,
Fluids slosh,
Rhythmic thrum,
     -Seismic discharge, scorned
     -Sediment, levered,
     -Leaving jigged
     -Impressions;
Chest compressions pegged
To tight scrutiny,
Given out,
Taken in,
     -Indentured routine,
     -Disentangling a
     -Face off with
     -Long held roots;
Compelled engagement,
Equivalent for
Adam in
Adamah,
     -Ground aggregate raked,
     -Mineral, earth tones
     -Suspended
     -Across field;
Close apprehended,
Flat circumstance of
Reluctant
Cake batter,
     -Submerged transcendence
     -Shouldered, smooth defaced
     -With wrinkled
     -Outpouring;
Wide-screen replicate,
A lisp redacted
When keeper
Sent on break,
     -Scale leaps, restraining
     -Stanchions, rope toppled,
     -Clarity
     -In lightness;
Full cape to mansion
Transmogrified the
Idea
Of shelter,
     -Beethoven delving
     -Silence composes
     -Thunderous
     -Symphony;
Tympanic cadence,
Steady buzz going
Down massaged
The message,
     -Surreal Socratic
     -Dialogue holds that
     -Corydon
     -Herds contrails;
Mono lithe, mythos
Antidote, shirt thrown
On, fingers
Run through hair,
     -Butt rode chair, barber
     -Ruffled top, shook out
     -Drape, the boy's
     -Eyes twinkled.

9 November 2017

Shirt off kilter, fence
Post neck lines base of
Flower pot
Spider plant,
     -Checkpoint misaligns
     -Feather, visor pops
     -Cv in
     -Ghost's retreat;
Locked up in masked guise,
Scatching at sutured
Lines for blood
Coursing through,
     -Musk shatters under
     -Detachment pressure
     -Embedding
     -Particles;
Muttered critique broke
Spell, compelling a
Strategic
Scoping out,
     -Clairvoyent, tacking
     -Port, resurrected
     -Sail which caught
     -Winds blown past;
Clear-sighted, in close
Quarters, jackhammer
Heart rattles
Comportment,
     -Thoughts sewn fast, eyes knot
     -Buoy below deck
     -Crow's nest kept
     -Debunking;
Rethinking allowed
Virile conveyance
Once harbored
Now floated,
     -What sunk, when yellows,
     -Blue washed, flushed in reds,
     -Evincing
     -Engagement.

6 December 2017
 

   



   

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Craig Emerson and Harvey Donegan 1 October 2017

       
                   (Craig Emerson 1981) 



                  (Harvey Donegan 1981) 


Decades' creased concerns
Sloughed, thinned hair troubles
Brushed back, seat's 
Perspective,
     -Climber scales terrain,
     -Pores tackled often,
     -Shapes, angles,
     -Anecdotes;
Rote aphorisms
Skim, 'We are happy
To serve you,'
Brims poison,
     -Lid popped, straight, charcoal
     -Slid back and forth to
     -Here and now
     -I accept;
I admit to herd
Mentality, crown 
Royal glass,
Sipper lips,
     -Smoking cured, whiskered
     -Lisp: 'Not a problem,'
     -Whispered, parched
     -Recital;
Pitched revival called
Out, two-stepped on first
Name basis
Partakers,
     -Side-stepped naysayers
     -Co-dependent on
     -Horse betting
     -Tea readers;
Purchased western boots,
Grew mustache, blew straw
Men lurching,
Questioned booze,
     -Broke down, stopped cold, black
     -Drained off, rappelled strafed
     -Cheeks, furrows
     -Beneath eyes;
'I am...' 'We will...' said 
Over collection
Box, spare change
Passed around,
     -Unraveled discards
     -Salvaged, balled up in
     -Pocket of
     -Choir robe;
Penance, sopranos
Paired, dereliction
Baritone
Soloist,
     -A traditional
     -Recitatif round,
     -Mace, female
     -Disciples;
Pipes, acapella
Brevis, vita purged,
Choir sings
Merci dirge,
     -Organ surged, lyre
     -Plucks from descending
     -Scale, heartstrings
     -Tugged ring bells;
Fling quelled, need blunted,
Hugged, taken in by
Group package
Travelers,
     -Fragile passengers,
     -Seats bumped, connections,
     -Lodging, meals
     -Uncertain;
Curtain, yanked past, healed,
Sun, confronted, washed
Across, held
Out promise,
     -Premise emboldened,
     -Skirted forehead, cheeks,
     -Chin, instilled
     -Sereneness.

7 September 2017

Vantage collector,
Chinese, Italian
Back turned, trick,
Bric-a-brac,
     -Profiled, spout protrudes
     -Harvey's mick kettle,
     -Polished black
     -Rendering;
Won't pretend, complaints
Admonished: work, tout
Sweet tea with
Southern drawl,
     -Source red sauced tank tops,
     -Playground demolished
     -Point guards, cleats
     -Chain link hooked;
Rook's trinkets, gleaned mounds,
Acquisition forged
Unrestrained,
Arraiment,
     -Deshabille claimant,
     -Gorge on pick-up game,
     -Center skin,
     -Shooting guard;
Thumbs rubbed, polishing,
Nose inhaled, newsprint,
Soil, suitcase,
Persimmon,
     -Frisson of brute force,
     -Foes drubbed, co's high five,
     -Trains bend, shriek,
     -Curse invoked;
Purser's vowels leak, stall
Seller's sighs, frantic
Birds squawk, trucks
Stalled honking,
     -Jock's balls crushed, mid-thigh
     -Gym shorts cut tight, cracks
     -Gawked diving
     -For missed shots;
Hot pots, missed fire
Peppers, sweet chillies,
Sesame
Crispy bites,
     -Tested means, Chris's,
     -Bills, meat tasting leads
     -To hungers,
     -Skewr'd entree;
Imbued quandary
Of dipping sauces,
Tongue chasing
Heat ends burned,
     -Lick numbing glazes,
     -Deep breaths, in and out,
     -Learn to Pace
     -Turn tables;
Unstable dim sum
Dishes tipping course
Of travels
Hand-to-mouth,
     -Discourse summation:
     -Dimmed lighting, countless
     -Hands and mouths
     -Ravaging;
Salvaged potentate
Of urban drab, brand
Earned squab, male
Birth control,
     -Bowled, maidenhair fronds,
     -Regal girth, stamping
     -Base metal
     -Currency;
Frequently clamping
Two woodens, mine and
Another's
Together,
     -Brotherhood sampling
     -Has line snaking down
     -The block in
     -All weather.

1 October 2017