Peter Legierse 18 February 2019

                   
                   (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