Takedown Portraits

Takedown Portraits
wrestling takedown

Thursday, May 16, 2019

John Bernd 26 July 2019


                    (John Bernd 1981-4?)

An experiment:
What's lost and found when
A life is
Seen portrayed,
     -Exhibitionist:
     -Painting action which
     -Conveyed moves
     -Of dancer;
Improvisation:
Chair, bones, vibrated,
Threnody
Fancier,
     -Impresario:
     -Head, arms, gyrated,
     -Seat of pants
     -Hegemon;
Monologist torch
Sang love, parried with
Death, clung to
Survival,
     -Vivisectionist
     -Deboned conjoined twins,
     -Life/Art, of
     -Artifice;
Somnambulist: a
Meditation on
Directions
Freed movement,
     -Perambulator:
     -Inculcation of
     -Linear
     -Narrative;
Horticulturist:
Propagated a
Personal
Landscape's view,
     -Caricaturist
     -Not, attempted an
     -Authentic
     -Perspective;
Parenthetical
Collaborator
Pulled inside,
Pushed away,
     -Serendipitous
     -Chalk marked, preemptor
     -Of lockdown
     -Strategy;
Ceremonial
Elaborator,
Chanted each
Tap danced step,
     -Inconsequential
     -Confabulator,
     -Recanted
     -Sounding board;
Untoward maniac
Jumped, calisthenics
Productive
Launching pad,
     -Brainiac contoured
     -Aesthetically
     -Elective
     -Punching bag;
Two of the loose-limbed
Protrusions employed
Gut wrenching
Catapults,
     -The arcane practice
     -Reticulated
     -A crocheted
     -Loggerhead;
Hogshead ricocheted,
Blindly carted down
ShopRite aisles
To dive bar,
     -Blue pastel waxed bars
     -Intruded head's hair
     -Imparted
     -On zigzag;
Big haired boys in drag
Live to offer up
Somethings for
Some people,
     -So simple sometimes,
     -Predilection toward
     -Costumed: boot
     -Cut, straight leg;
Brick housed, bare chested,
Flags spun on dance floor,
Fleet footed
Incarnate,
     -Orange poised, run down
     -Jaw's, neck's axis, whisked
     -Across eyes,
     -Streaking nose;
B-boy broke toprock,
Dropped handstand, windmill,
V-kicked freeze,
Yoked robot,
     -Wheeled firecracker
     -Ingredients from
     -Exploded
     -Cylinders;
Die Viennese valse,
Pardners do-si-do,
The center
Cannot hold,
     -Garnered cojones squeezed
     -Sliced centripetal
     -Basketballs
     -Through the net;
Movement opened to
Dancing around a
Pole, toeing
The line formed,
     -Hewing to profound
     -Geometrics, flat
      -Evinced depth,
      -Drawn around.

26 July 2019