Patrick Porter 20 January 2020

                   (Patrick Porter 1983)

                     (Patrick Porter 1981)

                       (Patrick Porter)

Camera shy you

Couldn't be among

Eyes counting

On a shot,

     -Delicately drawn

     -Out from collegiate 

     -Field to share 

     -A hot house;

Understood to be

Unavailable-

Straight- intrigue

Invited,

     -Wolves gathered at the

     -Doorways, under the

     -Windows, or

     -Improvised;

Strong armed chaperones

Negotiated,

A tea dance

Translated,

     -Tones commensurate

     -Unlocked prefigured

     -Innocence

     -In profile;

Temple gyrated,

While beauty and its

Beasts engaged

In worship,

     -Redirected gaze

     -Appropriated

     -Submissive

     -Demeanor;

Tabula rasa,

Demure conveyor

Of sublime

Contrivance,

     -Collective pastel,

     -Kabbalah readings

     -Fixated

     -Rendering;

Neutral observer,    

Copse copulation,

Migrating

Shower crowds,

     -Reverse portrayal

     -Isolated, ground

     -Rectangles

     -Counterpoised;

Singular, table 

Voices divulged honed

Gossip with

Cutting bite,

     -Mundane disclosures

     -Pictorially

     -Absorbed by

     -Gessoed skim;

Guest ancestries staged,

Epidermis beige

Tanned, buffed with

Sandpaper,

     -Brown hair coarsened, eyes

     -Skirmished with dog day 

     -Kin, tongue licked

     -Sun chapped lips, 

Three seasons en plein

Air exhibition

Watershed

Abandon,

     -Hockney snapped cedar

     -Framed, showering boy,

     -By artist's

     -Permission;

Faced back, distinctions

Shrank to remnants in

Super 8

Camera,

     -Business attired,

     -Crisp, white shirt, knotted

     -Necktie of

     -Coaxed portrait.

20 January 2021