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.

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Christopher Makos 16 January 2021

               (Christopher Makos 1969)

Documenting fast

Forward flashpoints from

Occasioned

Encounters,

     -Evocative pose

     -Studied in pigment

     -Without a

     -Set pretext;

Rolls of exposures

Developed on sheets

Promulgate

Their context,

     -Diced composition

     -Expounded over

     -Carte blanche propped

     -On easel;

Captioned sightings time

Stamped generation,

Black and white

Filled in blanks,

     -Fresco appointment,

     -Extempore sketch,

     -Momento

     -Impression;

Happenstance, minute,

Parterre swivels of

Heads, arms, hands, 

Legs, and feet,

     -Finite comeuppance,

     -Proportionally

     -Imparted 

     -Chest, arms, hand;

Arrived, departed,

Z scale boxcars hauled

Magnified,

Mortal freight,

     -Brutal space supplied

     -For miniscule limbs

     -Assembled

     -In fashion;

Guided scrutiny

Picked through buried trash,

Declared finds

Lost treasures,

     -Mise en scene smoked through

     -Cigarettes, ashes

     -Collected

     -In foam cups;

Fourth wall interlude,

Afterimages 

Imposed third

Degree burns,

     -Village, hinterland,

     -Stonewall rioters

     -Repulsed with

     -Projectiles;

Safety pins, razors,

Pricked, sliced, skin; black boots, 

Leather belts,

Lashed eyebrows;

     -Overturned trash cans,

     -Garbage, bottles, rocks,

     -Construction

     -Site bricks winged;

Hustler's bulging, black

Jeans solicited 

Johns, against

Building wall;

     -Bouncer at peephole

     -Eyed would-be patrons,

     -Nervously

     -Stalled by door;

Punk rock trio stood

At CBGB

Entrance, begged

Engagement,

     -Cash for drink tickets-

     -No liquor license-

     -Black walls, black

     -Lights, dance floors;

Candid shot, three males

Pissed, spaced apart, at

Porcelain

Urinals,

     -No running water,

     -No fire exits,

     -The toilets

     -Overflowed;

David Johansen,

Richard Hell photo

Op, backstage

Performance,

     -Gayola payoffs,

     -Wall Street employees

     -Blackmailed by

     -Mafia;

Man Ray's official

Passport reproduced

Over two,

Clean pages,

     -Lined up, carded, cops

     -Threatened pictures for

     -Newspaper

     -Publishing;

Lance Loud in profile

At boudoir mirror,

Vogue covered,

Crouching male,

     -Effeminate men,

     -Men dressed in full drag,

     -Arrested,

     -Taken out;

Divine, movie star,

Interviewed next to

Director, 

John Waters,

     -Handcuffed woman, hit

     -With baton, asked crowd,

     -'Why don't you...

     -Do something?'

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Raymond Foye 30 January 2021

                   (Raymond Foye 1981)

Watched from behind the

Scenes, as Bob, Rene,

And Eric, 

Imploded,

     -Dodged pose, pressed into

     - Paper edge, shaken

     -When fledglings

     -Hit concrete;

I can't sleep on floors,

Bum cigarettes, beg 

For my food

On the streets,

     -Wisecrack with wordsmiths

     -Wearing their prep school

     -Blazers to

     -Drink cocktails;

Got to be outside  

Of my head to hear

Oracles

Proclaiming,

     -Coffee shop windows 

     -Muffled shoplifted 

     -Faces from 

     -Rumors spread;

Seeing something through

Someone else's eyes,

Emperors

Wear new clothes,

     -Stream of consciousness

     -Dares you: colourful

     -Curlicues

     -Enshrining;

I can remember

Thinking, 'How can I

Do that?' while

Protected,

     -Skate the treachery

     -Of benefactors,

     -Misreading

     -Ice thickness;

Or eliminate 

Accumulated

Lechery

Of art books,

     -To delineate, 

     -With refined brush strokes, 

     -Eros of

     -Spines subtly;

Pile quotidian,

'Til emotional

Connections

Have surfaced,

     -Dial cerulean

     -Static reception

     -So signal

     -Penetrates;

Poet delegates:

Each a camera

'Nailed on bone,'

Then dispersed,

     -Words, which 'sledgehammered

     -White walls', misprinted,

     -'Saxophones

     -Infiltrate;'

'Would you wear my eyes?'

Mattress disheveled,

'Bargaining

From steel cage,'

     -'Rimbaud bleeds over

     -My stolen pants,' 'dipped

     -In poems,' to

     -'Wrap my corpse;'

'Painter, paint me a 

Jail,' in the red paint,

'Yellow-eyed

Dog whistled,'

     -We devoured each

     -Other word by word,

     -'Plucking rolled

     -Balls of sound;'

'Bathroom stalls have ears,'

So share no secrets,

Billie's pitch

Stuck to walls,

     -'Doctors hide foreskin

     -Strips inside chart notes,'

     -'Strangle with

     -Noose of books;'

'Jazz, listen to it

At your own risk,' with

The needle

Going down,

     -'Songs are like tattoos,'

     -Razored blues, speakers

     -Blasted in

     -Stereo;

The carefully made,

Startling beautiful,

Remembrance    

Of lost time,    

     -The fully bared, laid 

     -Out, encumbrance of

     -Transient 

     -Perceptions;

Journals, notebooks, dumped, 

Retrieved, burnt, soaked, dried:

Words, arranged,

Rearranged,

     -Radiator steamed,

     -Painted over, torn,

     -Obtrusive

     -Abstractions;

'I can get very

Bored with my own things,' 

The mourning

Of a poem,

     -'I sit here writing

     -For fear of seeing

     -What's outside

     -(Of) my head.' 

    

  30 January 2021