Reading List

Without knowing most of the sitters, (although I had heard Charles Ludlam's actor's voice, and had dinner with Patrick Angus), I lacked having a voice in my mind as I wrote about the rest of them, relying on books by, or about them which I could find. The internet, especially Wikipedia, was invaluable, as were the books below:

Tsuzuki, Kyoichi, 'Izhar Patkin: The Black Paintings,' Horikawa: Kyoto Shoin International, 1989.

Kislev, Shuli, 'Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil,' Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2012.

Gooch, Brad, 'The Golden Age of Promiscuity,' New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Gooch, Brad, 'Scary Kisses,' Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2003.

Gooch, Brad, 'Smash Cut,' New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.

Trinidad, David, ed., 'A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, Callicoon: Nightboat Books, 2013.

Shepherd, Reginald, and Clark, Philip, eds., 'In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, New York: Nightboat Books, 2016.

Cooper, Dennis, 'Idols,' New York: Amethyst Press, 1989.

Cooper, Dennis, 'Safe,' New York: The Sea Horse Press, 1984.

Cooper, Dennis, 'The Tenderness of the Wolves,' Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1982.

Kaufman, David, 'Ridiculous: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam, New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2003.

Samuels, Steven, 'Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly,' New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1992.

Ludlam, Charles, 'The Complete Plays,' New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1989.

Strub, Sean, 'Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival,' New York: Scribner, 2014.

Geldzhaler, Henry, 'New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970,' New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1969.

Geldzhaler, Henry, 'Making It New: Essays, Interviews and Talks,' New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.

Geldzhaler, Henry, 'Sandro Chia Prints 1973-1984,' New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.

Kerensky, Oleg, 'Anna Pavlova,' New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1973.

Kerensky, Oleg, 'The New British Drama: Fourteen Playwrights Since Osborne and Pinter,' New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1977.

Morgan, Ted, 'Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs,' New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988.

Miles, Barry, 'Call Me Burroughs: A Life,' New York: Hachette Book Group, 2013.

Burroughs, William S., 'Naked Lunch,' New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Burroughs, William S., 'Junky,' New York: Grove Press, 2003.

Keene, Dennis, ed., 'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Selected Poems,' Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003.

Childs, Jessie, 'Henry VIII's Last Victim,' London: Vintage Books, 2008.

Garlicky, Kenneth, 'Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age 1790-1830,'  Alexandria: Art Services International, 1993.

Foye, Raymond, ed., 'Eric Walker: Selected Poems,' New York: Raymond Foye Books, 2019.

Cherkovski, Neeli, Foye, Raymond, Swindell, Tate, eds. 'Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman,' San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2019.

Makos, Christopher, 'White Trash: Uncut,' New York: Glitterati, 2014.

Makos, Christopher, 'Warhol In Context,' Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2006.

Hamilton, Steve, (Loose, typed copies of poems).

Bleckner, Ross, 'Examined Life; Writings 1972-2007,' New York: Edgewise, 2009.

Boone, Mary, 'Ross Bleckner: 5 November to 26 November 1983,' New York, Mary Boone Gallery, 1983.

Dennison, Lisa, 'Ross Bleckner,' New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1995.

Milazzo, Richard, 'The Paintings of Ross Bleckner,' Brussels: Edition Alain Noirhomme, 2006.

Milazzo, Richard, 'The Corner of the Room: Paintings of the 1970's With New Works By the Artist,' Modena: Galleria Mazzoli, 2018.

Bolger, David, 'Patrick Angus: Private Show,' Berlin: Distance Verlag, 2017.

While not books, phone calls/emails with Arthur Lambert, the Reverend Rob Stuart, and hours spent as a proactive sitter for Maine artist, Peter Bals, have to be noted as sources. I was able to bring many of the portraits so we could talk about them during 'show and tell' breaks at Peter's studio. 

, 2018.

Francis Boushay 4 February 2021

                  (Francis Boushay 1983)

Stared straight ahead in

Optometric pose,

Asked to, 'Pick 

A wall spot,'

     -Headshot examined,

     -Inspiration pulled

     -From the eyes

     -Toward viewer;

'My preferred name is 

Francis, "i, s," at

The end, not 

"Frank," "Frances,"'

     -Fancied having his 

     -Portrait painted by

     -Me, asked for

     -A 'good one;'

'I am "the love of

His life," he told me, 

Over the

Telephone,'

     -Conflicts telegraphed,

     -Stripes regulated

     -The strands of

     -Tangled hair;

'Do you believe in

Love at first sight?' mint

Unwrapped from

Cellophane,

     -Candy freshened breath

     -Pushed across room, his

     -Fingers scratched

     -At collar;

Dollars flattened out

In pocket, 'Has this-

Love- happened

To you, too?'

     -He'd have known the whole

     -Story from the guys

     -Who'd referred

     -Him to me;

'It's a long distance

Relationship right

Now, his work's

On West Coast,'

     -As was mine once, him-

     -California- me-

     -New York- now

     -We're both here;

'Going to sort the

Details over time

To find what

Works out best,'

     -Back and forth, with two

     -Apartments, boys on

     -The side, needs

     -Understood;

'Lots of men hanging

On the walls. Are they

Personal

Friends of yours?'

     -He smirked, as his eyes

     -Pivoted from walls

     -Back to me,

     -His heels bounced;

'I'm curious how 

This works, brushing wet

Paint against

A canvas,'

     -Eyes riveted on

     -Alex's, and Ken's,

     -Larger than

     -Life faces;

'Always comes down to

Size, doesn't it, and

I went with

A small one,'

     -What size allowed, less

     -Enlargement, than an

     -Entering 

     -Into whole;

'You do this every

Day, painting, drawing,

Looking at

Boys' faces?'

     -What look like one-offs

     -Built over tries to

     -Get it right,

     -Find likeness;

'It seems like you have

Regulars stopping

By, and some

Coming once,'

     -Beats staring into

     -A mirror doing

     -Self-portraits

     -Of myself;

'Can I take a glance

At it while you are

Still painting,

On a break?'

     -Strokes continued, it's

     -Done, overplaying 

     -Risks losing

     -All of it;

'It looks like me, but

Too serious? Stiff?

Although there's

Something else,'

     -Representation,

     -Which takes from within,

     -Bringing it

     -To surface;

'You have to keep your

Eyes on it to catch

What I think

I can see,

     -Light tones focused eyes,

     -Suggested features

     -Contradict

     -With motion.

4 February 2021

     

Ken(nan) Gault 26 December 2020

                       (Ken Gault 1982)

'I wanted to be

Like him,' like Peter

Bock, to be

Peter Bock,

     -I took in Ken Gault, 

     -Drew his face oval,

     -Neck lines to

     -His shoulders;

I wanted his grace,

Self-assuredness,

I paid to

Bring him home,

     -Ears, nose, mouth, with lips

     -Sewn tight, his silence

     -Kept session

     -Serious;

For less than rent, I

Had ownership; peered,

Curious

What he thought,

     -Crayoned some head hair,

     -Worked between colors

     -Of his plaid

     -Shirt, and eyes;

Traded dead air for

Man-made, intimate

Dialogue:

He was hung,

     -Wary expression

     -Eluded more than

     -Proximate

     -Critiquing;

We are connected

Through ex's, 'couldas,

Shouldas,' shares

At the Pines,

     -Invited tricks would

     -Roleplay naked lines

     -With complete

     -Abandon;

'I was a mummy,'

Bandages costumed

Foot-in-mouth

Prevention,

     -Linkages presumed 

     -Staged, histrionic

     -Recital

     -Of housemates;

Hausfraus hummed of their

Experience to

Educate

Innocent,

     -Marched to the beats of

     -A dedicated,

     -Drummer boy

     -Entourage;

Different montage

Predicated search

For inner

Most batboy,

     -Clued on preference

     -Promulgated WASP

     -Attachment

     -To frat boys;

Paid to commingle

With hotel guests, hewed

To 5 Oaks

Showcasers,

     -Waylaid by poets'

     -Friends, window shopped by

     -West Broadway

     -Gallerist;

Fabulous: fiction;

Substantiated:

Fact; (Waldorf

Pragmatist),

     -Exhibitionists

     -Hauled out family

     -Jewels for

     -Inspection;

Bald-faced disclosure

Kept zipped up yule log's 

Warm, drizzled,

After bite,

     -180 degrees

     -Of separation

     -Quarantined

     -Perspective;

Spared KS eclipse

Warranted pallor

For full-blown

Conversion,

     -A dearth of bare mooned

     -Perversity palmed

     -Appetite

     -In austere;

Fulsome hindquarters,

Beano calmed, tooted

Last boyfriend's

Best gossip,

     -Lip serviced forest    

     -For the trees in it,

     -Close pursuit

     -Guaranteed;

Fancied hirsute cloth

Penance applying

Pectoral

Decoupage,

     -Conte accompli,

     -While bandied about

     -Languished with

     -The spectral;

Some doubt distinguished, 

Determination 

That conflicts

Be resolved,

     -Subsumption involved,

     -Spouted sepia

     -To depict

     -Full-blooded.

   

28 December 2020

      

     

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

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  

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?'

 16 January 2021    

     

     

     

     

     

     

    

     

     

    

     

   

     

     

    

     

     

     

     

     

    

  

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     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

William S. Burroughs 19 November 2020

 

                           (William Burroughs 1983)

Fearful of nightmares,

Hallucinating

Little men

Playing house,

     -Terror of nightmares,

      -Melancholic tones

     -Textured by

     -Fear, guilt, rage;

'Ghostly grey figures, 

Apparition of 

Green reindeer

In the woods,' 

     -Nude figures cut out,

     -Genitals cut off,

     -Scissors gripped

     -By stained hand;

Red phosphorus mixed

With potassium

Chlorate, black

Powder bombs,

     -Sudden outbursts sprayed

     -Explosive temper,

     -Violent

     -Forces stirred;

Pistol in shoulder

Holster, assembled,

Pin readied

Tommy Gun,

     -Gun metal rifles

     -Pulled off walls, pointed,

     -Brown bovines

     -Switch their tails;

'Let me show it to

You... real beauty...I

Love the feel

In my hand,'

     -Chain smoked cigarettes

     -Sucked down, stomped out, in

     -Back-room bars

     -Swilling beers;

'You Can't Win' spelled it

Out: if found unlike 

Others, best

Keep apart,

     -Underdog's quick wit

     -Joking undermined

     -Threatening

     -When cornered;

Boy, 'gibbon,' measured,

Weighed, Harvard lectured,

Eccentrics

Sacrosanct,

     -Draftsman aped student,

     -Won Cooper Union

     -Semester

     -Scholarship;

Thinking dissected,

Finger severed, son

Committed

To parents,

     -Entry-level job

     -Mindless, next job, wrist 

     -Transaction

     -Leveraged;

Flunked enlistment, ducked

Draft, copywriter,

Bug sprayer,

Writ server,

     -Piece de resistance

     -Boy wonder flunkey,

     -A saddle

     -Amigo;

Jack, junk, Huncke, Allen,

Joan, Neal, orgone box,

Billy, Kells,

In snapshots,

     -Arthur, David, A.,

     -Henry, Ellsworth, B.,

     -Barnett, Hans,

     -The cutout;

New York, Texas, New 

Orleans, Mexico, 

Tangier, 'Lunch,'

Tri fold-ins,

     -Europe, Africa,

     -Europe, Florida,

     -Five Village

     -Subway stops;

Primordially

Disembodied graft

Absorbed male,

Oozed female,

     -Cordially sublime

     -Beauty encompassed

     -Masculine

     -Fruition;

Possessed by evil

Spirit, the sentence:

Recording

Instrument,

     -Recessed conflicting

     -Emotions in paint

     -Strokes, drunk blind

     -Hailed their cabs;

Interzone routines

Unpredictable,

Un-sequenced

Travelogues,

     -Workspace frequented

     -By local poets

     -And artists,

     -Keen sitters;

Cartographer's script,

Detritus, mixed for

Indexing,

Editing,

     -Photographer's kit,

     -Art supplies, art books,

     -Painted, stacked

     -Canvasses;

(Stock characters), Gimp,

Vigilante, Rube,

Shake Man, Kid,

Doctor, Nurse,

     -Big city slicker 

     -Denizens, Village

     -Wannabes,

     -His subjects;

Moved to the Bunker,

Once YMCA 

Boys' locker, 

Mezzanine,

     -Drinkers' noise sector,

     -Basement studio, 

     -Shadow of

     -Ninth Circle;

Midwest twang read out

Practiced underground

Passages

To the rapt,

     -Lidless edginess

     -Trapped on surfaces

     -Bled into

     -Dramatic;

Narrative driven

By daily typing 

In drink, drugs,

Induced trance,

     -Self-medicated

     -Alcohol, depressed,

     -Curated

     -Ambitions;

Rodent bitten draft

Manuscript, pasted

Over bits

And pieces,

     -Candid pencil takes

     -Instinctively pierced

     -Unwitting

     -Disclosures;

Voices posturing,

Visions mirrored back,

Dimensions

Shattering,

     -Choices pestering,

     -Decisions battered,

     -Buttressed eye

     -Zeroed in;

Introspective, self 

Analyzed, odd man

Outsider

Appraised all,

     -Extrospective half

     -Canonised surplice

     -Conditioned

     -Doubt sayers;

Wages, allowance,

Bail, drug sales, crop sales,

Advances,

Royalties,

     -Scholarship, wages,

     -Companionship, trips,

     -Grantee, sales,

     -Commissions;

Mote, Laura, Billy;

Giorno, Ginsberg, 

James; Ian,

Mort, felines,

     -Alice, Arthur, Tim;

     -John, Julia Mayo;

     -Holly, Charles;

     -And Sidney;

'Cities of the Red

Night,' fiction refuge,

Cragged nova

Complexion,

     -Grit of the red eyed

     -Oracle's formal,

     -Unrehearsed,

     -Delivery.

19 November 2020

 

     

     

     

     

   

     

     

  

    

    

     

      

Steve Hamilton 2 September 2020

               (Steve Hamilton 198?)

'Today the toaster
Refused to toast the
Bread, reason
Unexplained,'
     -Last week, laundromat
     -Washer wouldn't spin,
     -Plugged in, lights,
     -Started, stopped;
'There's no reasoning
With these machines, so
There was a
Group: Luddites,'
     -Attendant looked, said
     -Something to herself,
     -Put up "Out
     -Of Order;"
'I'm seldom happy,
They said. Who could be
Happy at
Times like these?'
     -Given a token,
     -Laundry floated in
     -Detergent,
     -Dirt, water;
'The marvelous might
Be hiding under
The carpet.
Rip it up.'
     -If the sign is gone,
     -It's possible that
     -The washer
     -Has been fixed;
'I ripped the carpet
Up and I found dirt.
A pity.
Quel dommage.'
     -Also possible
     -That someone took off
     -The "Out of
     -Order" sign;
Left dirt behind, 'lost
Again when camel
Collapsed in
A desert,'
     -Commission relapsed
     -With Alex Katz's
     -'Nabil's Loft'
     -Pandering;
'Intrepid journey
To find Calypso
Singer, or
Water glass,'
     -An ipso facto
     -Gurney commandeered
     -To convey
     -Eyeglass glint;
'The alchemy of
Despair is seldom
A failure.'
Even now.
     -Ingredients of
     -Prell shampoo redeemed
     -Balcony
     -Of brown hair;
'It began raining
In the desert and
I almost
Choked on mud,'
     -Van Goghed window shade
     -Torments nocturnal
     -Poet in
     -Oil seed black;

'The Party is in

A troublesome state,

Run out of

Alcohol,'

     -'Comrades: we must take

     -Up a collection,'

     -Redeem all

     -The empties;

'Ten thousand birds fly

Out of my head. It

Must now be

In summer,'

     -Five hundred pigs roll

     -Out of their beds, it 

     -Must be a

     -Mineshaft night;

'Three pomegranates

On a silver plate.

It must now

Be in Rome,'

     -Two dharma bums, Six

     -Gallery reading,

     -Must be San

     -Francisco;

'I tried to achieve

Total inertia.

My efforts

Applauded,'

     -I applied solvents

     -To relieve tincture

     -Of viscous

     -Adherence;

'Past tense sense: absence

Of chance enlivened

The dance of

Harmony,'

     -Prevalence of chance

     -Invigorated

     -Advance toward

     -Resemblance;

'Object acquired 

More subject. Verbs lost

Their nerve. Rhyme's 

Memory,'

     -Posers exposed with

     -Tones, sitters composed

     -Of dabs, hand

     -Flicks eyeballed;     

'As stars exploded

Over Mars, we ran

Under a

Nearby tree,'

     -'To explore nature's

     -Fortifications,'

     -Which stored faint

     -Resistance;

'Wild beasts waltzed to tune

Of a fake earthquake

Which faded

To musings,'

     -Vulcan climax mooned

     -Metropolitan    

     -Jaded on

     -A blind date;

'But your smile's crystal

Flaccidity has

Deferred plans

For retreat,'

     -While placidity

     -Mitred violent

     -Edges from

     -Glossy lips;

'Cells were on the march,

My celibacy

Abandoned,'

Celebrate!

     -Balls held to the flame,

     -Bellicosity

     -Sequestered

     -Under bed;

'Who among you has

Ever thought to take

Some control 

Of this lust?'

     -Conjugate, discussed

     -Within grammar, a

     -'Technical'

     -Adjective.

     

 2 September 2020    

     

     

      

     

      

   
   

Henry Howard 23 July 2020

     [Study of Holbein's] (Henry Howard,                  Earl of Surrey no date)


(My) '...achievement small
In scale and flawed...' I'm
'...merely a
Man who served,'
     -I contrived to show
     -Court bard broadside, through
     -Pains, travails,
     -Attaining;
A 'literary
Personality'
Whose pen's work
Was 'distinct,'
     -Is still in print, as
     -Mercenary ken
     -Moves pieces
     -By default;
Faint praise when charged as
Borrower of text
In Latin
Translation,
     -'Neither borrower
     -Nor lender be,' traced
     -Lines patterned
     -Depiction;
'Many things tasting
Of a noble mind,'
Sir P. S.
Tongued the block,
     -Too 'tender aged,' lodged
     -Predilection when
     -Ranked, Chaucer,
     -Spenser, you;
Insurrectionist's
Vocabulary,
'Words, words, words,'
Formation,
     -Illustrator's stirred
     -Incubus foments
     -Primary
     -Canvasses;
'Victorious his
Lance, matchless his pen,'
Geraldine
Bird laments,
     -'Perchance to dream' that
     -Prick-tease heralded
     -Scholarly
     -Renewal;
'Windsor, wherein seems
Lust and joy did tread,
Pleasant dreams,
Quiet bed,'
     -Tendrils extracted
     -Of boy's foolery,
     -Bachelor's
     -Bowery;
'We have fought and chased
In active games, rein
Nimble braced,
We did strain,'
     -I have lain, encased
     -In cornstalks, food brought,
     -Left in peace
     -My gamble;
'No secrets forborn,
Or promise unkept,
Friendship sworn
Where trust leapt,'
     -Lawrence's pencil,
     -Adept in kinship's
     -Fist, garnered
     -Likenesses;
'Blood forsakes my guise,
Where is my fere, whom
Woes freed, lies,
Plaints entomb,'
     -Boxer's torso, knee,
     -Pubic plaits festooned
     -Conformist
     -Forbearance;
'I see that things pitched
Not as outward poke,
Wrapped in stitched,
Crafty cloak,'
     -Courtier Lawrence
     -Engaged attentions
     -To flesh out
     -Dramatic;
'Garments to clothe your
Naked man suffice
To lecture
Clad in vice,'
     -Moth furred armature
     -Swept from sedulous
     -Heads fixed by
     -Taskmaster;
'By princely acts I
Strove to make endure,
Houses high
Set my cure,'
     -Royalty's mister
     -Courted credentials
     -To stave off
     -Creditors;
'An heir unaligned
Shall reap fruits I sow,
Goods resigned,
Title crow,'
     -Each peer survived suits
     -Lifetime succession,
     -Lucrative
     -Patronage;
'My soul offended
With griefs of follies,
Bells mended,
Scourged mollies,'
     -Myself confounded
     -By correspondence,
     -Lads spread out
     -Spelling paint;
'Burdened dissolute
At the Lord's behest,
'Til refute
Viper's nest,'
     -Chastened, compulsive
     -Paper procurer,
     -Cotton limned
     -Where flesh foiled;
'When sudden storms heave
Falsehoods to assail,
Crosswinds reave,
Safe ports fail,'
     -Where leaden forearms
     -Paused, bettors wagered
     -Appointments
     -Steep decline;
'These newly risen
Men would by their will
Unchristen
Chosen krill,'
     -European tour
     -Unfastened vaults of
     -Luminous
     -Collections;
'Scarce hath seed formed man
When death leads to earth,
Branch's span
Lopped from birth,'
     -Five decades ceded
     -Level planche to prop
     -An easel,
     -Fresh soled shoes;
'My glass presents me
A determined breast,
Thrawldom free
Planted rest,'
     -My craft predestined
     -A life's dependence
     -Composing
     -Eminence.

23 July 2020
   
   

Morris Golde 26 May 2020

                   (Morris Golde 1981)

Tim's note: 'A pretty
And pretty drunk blond
Boy (sporting)
A blazer,'
     -Ashbery party
     -Pretentious forsworn-
     -Before I
     -Quit drinking;
Tim, quoting Morris:
'An incredible
Beauty on
All levels,'
     -Circling the social,
     -Artistic fish bowl,
     -Feeding off
     -The substrate;
Berkson on Village:
'Intense assertions,
Pro and con,
Gushes, slaps,'
     -Nonpartisan ponce
     -Allegedly quipped
     -Scorecard on
     -Proceedings;
Impassioned broadside
Ricocheted dance floor,
Sandwiches
Suspended,
     -Boston Virgil bear
     -Hugged Brooklyn Aaron
     -Shouting (S)te(i)n
     -Commandments;
Erick claimed a clear
Space, cantilevered
Somatic
Extension,
     -Frank stubbed cigarette
     -And cheered, 'I just thought
     -Something ought
     -To happen;'
Alvin sight read from
Lucia's sheets, nodding
To John at
Intervals,
     -Lenny scrutinised
     -Physique's elastic
     -Skin tones for
     -Indentions;
Top down Jane blocked off
Goings on, peering
At wall stains
Vanishing,
     -Tim brandished pencil,
     -Michael Press program's
     -Damp water
     -Mark John's way;
Arranged Jane resolved
The mounting tension,
'I have the
Coffee set,'
     -Marc mimicked airborne
     -Plane on Morris's,
     -Lenny's heads,
     -'Bombs away!'
'There is a balance
To be maintained,' wigged
Out Edward,
As Agnes,
     -Edwin nagged her, as
     -Him, 'That's the Mrs.
     -W's
     -Last sandwich,'
'Parlance ham-fisted,'
Maurice observed of
Paper plate
Residue,
     -Tony butted in,
     -'No matter how you
     -Slice it, so...
      -Out to lunch;'
'If I could wrap my
Hands around,' Michael
De called it:
'Trois-si-dos,'
     -Gene reconfigured,
     -'Stations sans de Croix'
     -'Upside down!'
     -Michael howled;
'Make a cushion in
Your head for the street,'
Mused Scott, with
Downturned bowl,
     -Maggie frowned, beat source
     -Clammed, Richard, Clinton
     -Proposed an
     -Audition;
Arnold nosed garbage,
Boosted the meat source
For his 'Red
Eye of Love,'
     -Kenward whispered that
     -He corresponded
     -As heiress
     -With grocers;
Maxine misheard that 
Vincent was 'gorging,'
John's prive
Coup de corps,
     -In Vermont, Ron blew
     -His blaze cinder boards
     -To great balls
     -Of fire;
Kenneth revait Red
Robin formation,
Yeats' gyre
Widening,
     -Barbara found Morris
     -On his knees, wrapping
     -Up slippers
     -For Wystan. 


26 May 2020   
   






   
   

Roger Trefousse 19 April 2020

                 (Roger Trefousse 1982)

                         (Ben Weber)



Peripatetic
Vocal rebuttals
Disrupted
At midstream,
     -Pretzeled, pathetic,
     -Defensive lineman
     -Doggedly
     -Tightened hole;
Nocturnal debuts
Colloquial strides
Keyed over
Telephone,
     -Diurnal caboose
     -Parochial prey,
     -Narrow guage
     -Discipline;
Autodidactic,
Bare boned copyist,
Dismantled
Components,
     -Tempered scholar, piqued
     -Reproductionist,
     -Glissandoed
     -Ostacles;
Camp anchorite dished
Delectations of
Consummate
Home cooking,
     -Damp Mennonite corked
     -Ladies Parties fizzed
     -Charades for
     -Candidness;
Purveyors foraged,
Exotic spices,
Butcher cuts,
Choicest fruits,
     -Calf love disparaged,
     -Cantaloupes squeezed, plums,
     -Stewed in juice,
     -Swallowed, spit;
One day spent shopping,
Preparing, one day
Spent cooking,
For hour,
     -Hours observing,
     -Sketching, weeks spent brushed
     -Back, finding,
     -For a glance;
Voluptuous soup,
Frisson greens, lardons,
Filet de
Boeuf en croute,
     -Morris Golde grouped,
     -Dickerson, Cooper
     -Cordoned, Rounds
     -Rib cage crushed;
Mindless bagatelle,
Flourished caprice, red
Cabbage sweet,
Sour notes,
     -Chalked breakfast specials,
     -Mascara streaked kid,
     -Belched powdered
     -Sugar knot;
Sublime aroma,
Pinched cumin, curry,
Infused cream,
Chicken broth,
     -Subsumed diner scents,
     -Toast, coffee, bacon
     -Grease rendered
     -Griddle eggs;
Maror undertones,
Bitter chicory,
Wilted, red
Vinegar,
     -Savoured indulgence,
     -Melted butter spread,
     -Cinnamon
     -Sticky bun;
Mantecatura
Modulated drone,
Crackle, hiss,
Fingering,
     -Register ping, popped
     -Up click, refill glug,
     -Cast iron
     -Sizzle, scrape;
Scaled symposium,
Spooned here, forkful there,
Cut apart
Puffery,
     -Rush hour cram course
     -Scooped off styrofoam,
     -Or grabbed from
     -Paper bag;
Bombay terrace, Swiss
Bower, London flat,
In New York
Apartment,
     -Polish tea shop, French
     -Bistro, West Village
     -Regulars'
     -Greasy spoon;
Lukewarm goulash spilled
By arthritic hand,
Stoic dogs
Under foot,
     -Prosaic settings,
     -Spelled out, left blank, took
     -In crayoned
     -Expressions;
Fantasia rose,
Wrapping him, naked
On bench, with
Hand marked sheets,
     -Mark, squarely planted,
     -Back strapped, weighed down with
     -Random books
     -Clenched to knee.

20 April 2020

Ross Bleckner 2 March 2020

                      (Ross Bleckner ~1982)

Works of art: signs which
Conveyed ideas,
Symbols for
Actual,
     -Representative,
     -Pigmented shapes, ground's
     -Seminal
     -Cutout lines;
Art is an act of
Consciousness, r,
Expression,
     -The undeciphered
     -Dream jottings read on
     -Therapist's
     -Pristine wall;
An examined life
Contended with skin,
Arena
Its surface,
     -Closely scrutinised
     -Pore arrangement gave
     -Self-conscious
     -Latitude;
Custody of eyes
Prefaced encounter,
Loss recalled
In total,
     -Treachery of dye
     -Permutations in
     -Visible
     -Conveyance;
The frustration of
Loss reconstruction,
Scintilla
Of weather,
     -'Sorrows of Werther'
     -Monochromatic,
     -Alzheimer's
     -Production;
Male kiss talk displaced
Desire to be
Engaged in
Kiss action,
     -Lust mistaken for
     -Idiomatic,
     -Intimate
     -Dialogue;
Console stopped Bach fugue,
Reverberated
Wind carried
Transcription,
     -Bifurcated sock,
     -Buried find, enshrined
     -Painterly
     -Happenstance;
Felt cornered: process
Oriented search
Rolled out, on,
Sanded off,
     -Lauded proficient,
     -Results bore progress,
     -Attested
     -To routine;
Geometrics towed,
White on black on white,
Unfolded
Poutine boats,
     -Neophyte draftsman's
     -Schematic views, which
     -Helmsman had
     -Abandoned;
Bulb scorched exposures,
Light staged, fight or flight,
Talisman
Performance,
     -Reformer's Rorschach
     -Suggestions, oil and
     -Acrylic
     -Crease stand-ins;
Properties leased by
Forlorn dyslexics
In outbacks
Idyllic,
     -Archaic dispatch
     -Marginalised the
     -Warrior
     -Perspective;
Constructions deployed
Spun around axis,
Surmounting
Barriers,
     -Factus detected
     -Through demarcations
     -Configured
     -Influence;
Ramifications
Of pond photographed
On rental
Property,
     -Corner of bedroom
     -Photographed, street light
     -Slanted through
     -Venetians;
Of Joel Shapiro's
House shaped sculptures, stuck-
Inveigled-
Pictographs,
     -Convulsive laughter
     -When intercepted
     -Ducks dropped at
     -Gallery;
Of Housatonic,
Hinterland tuck shop
Consular's
Diary,
     -Punxsutawney Phil's
     -Hallucinated,
     -Pinter prompted
     -Betrayal;
Recirculated
Furniture, ladder,
Dunked outside,
Preemptive,
     -Reconstituted
     -Portraiture, profiles
     -Turned around
     -Redemptive;
Deconstructed bed,
Rectilinear
Successions
Examined,
     -Redirected head
     -Studies exploiting
     -Transfacial
     -Curvature;
Further off processed,
Edge containment sparred
With, knock out
Dynamic,
     -Synthetic booted
     -From apprehended
     -Dodge, brushes
     -Gathered up;
Curves circulated
Confrontation with
Imminent
Erasure,
     -Perambulation's
     -Indelible marks
     -Departure
     -Catalyst;
Head manifested,
By postured suspense,
Surrogate
Stepped away,
     -Eye manufactured,
     -By attention trained
     -From presence,
     -Closing in;
Landscape of the mind,
Etched evocation
Of someone
Forgotten,
     -Grandstand of the posed
     -Memorialised
     -Impingement
     -Cottoned to;
Abstraction flattened
Representation,
Pressured from
Underneath,
     -Introspection reached
     -Laded rendition,
     -Welling up
     -Opened out;
After, pivotal
Stretched marks struck around,
Boxed out of
Ring corners,
     -Resilience out foxed,
     -Unconscious transfixed
     -In earthen
     -Toned pigments;
Black, white, persistent,
Streamed intersections
Brought outward
From inscribed,
     -The weight of the world's
     -Transit of Venus,
     -Visceral
     -Discus hurled;
Rumorous brightening
Stippled backwoods where
Dejected
Sought solace,
     -Tumors lengthened, spread,
     -Radiation zapped,
     -Acquiesced
     -Fetal cline;
Compartmented chinks
Exchanged organic,
Intrusive
Influence,
     -Panel confluence
     -Clunky jiggering
     -Of fatal
     -Concessions;
Imposition of
Staggered weights led to
Animate
Discussion,
     -Posterior glutes
     -Unclenched an obscured,
     -Humanist
     -Rebuttal;
Obsession consumed,
Veiled off, forgotten,
Figmental
Swallow hole,
     -Prevailed over gag
     -Reflex, traumatic
     -Parlayed for
     -Psychic chute;
Mineshaft passage flagged,
Snorting dilated
Squatting legged
Defecant,
     -Boots licked leprechauns
     -Afforded playground
     -On midweek
     -Leather nights;
Praxis splintered on
Canvassed platform, far
Flung districts
Coalesced,
     -Vantage point washed through
     -Perpendiculars
     -Of metal
     -Window gate;
Porous film dissolved,
Evaporating
Immersive
Barriers,
     -Black and white striped shirt,
     -Open collar points,
     -Delivered
     -With wrinkles;

Sloped stolidity

Enveloped weather,
Conducive
To dolour,
     -Rolled maroon embraced
     -For subdued brightness
     -Precipice
     -Depended;
Grievance in absence
Quelled avoidance of
Colorblind
Concessions,
     -Chiaroscuro
     -Cemented bland, rolled
     -Oat porridge
     -To veneer;
Tenor's diffusive
Quandary conjectured
Avian
Distinction,
     -Flat, conspicuous
     -Brushwork surmounted
     -By fleshtone
     -Comportment;
Chandeliers supplied
Illumination
To fleshed out
Abjection,
     -Incandescent bulbs
     -Strung out disclosure
     -Of benign
     -Enigma.

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Craig S. 9 November 2019

                          (Craig S. 1982)

                
                         (Unknown 1983)

Posed portfolio
Shot, head tilted right
Toward knuckles,
Eyes stared out,
     -Blue crew neck- model's
     -Own- forelock twisted,
     -Aide-memoire
     -Tacked to wall;
Photographer, crouched
Behind tripod's lens,
Luminaire
Bracketing,
     -Chin curved out free hand,
     -Hair, sweater, blocked in
     -Black and blue,
     -Eyes studied;
Foreground flash flooded,
Background gaze shouldered,
Pervasive
Crowding out,
     -Eyes, nose, mouth congealed
     -Self-revelation's
     -Simmering
     -Embryo;
Resolute brio
Steadied emulsion's
Revenant
Properties,
     -Caran d'Ache marshes,
     -Jetties, coastline formed
     -Contours in
     -Picture plane;
Perceptions pinned to
Darkroom clothesline a
Voyeur tinged
Placebo,
     -Fingers' grasp allowed
     -Shift, silver record,
     -To powder
     -Concordance;
Posed portfolio
Shot, head straightened, left
Hand grazed chin,
Eyes stared out,
     -Blue crew neck- model's
     -Own- modulated
     -Ground, forelock,
     -Twisted, brown;
Photographer stood
Back, tripod, easel
Framed close-up
Elements,
     -Broad development:
     -Head; chin; neck; collar;
     -Hand; blocked out
     -Feasible;
Flash assaulted eyes,
Stacked canvasses brushed
Back of head,
Wires looped,
     -Desultory blues
     -Coated, incisive
     -Browns, trained through
     -Reds, marooned;
Periorbitals
Funneled ruminant
Basin strained
Of surname,
     -Faint luminesence
     -Dabbed face, birthmark daubed
     -Eye, wiped clean
     -Along throat
Testimony hedged
Insular resolve,
Wariness
Transparent,
     -Binary eyes hived
     -Representation
     -Empathic,
     -Imprisoned;
Third year, fourth portrait,
Watched dissolve before
Propped canvas,
Palette, brush,
     -Revolving lathe whirred,
     -Conspicuous slab
     -Weathered by
     -Oils applied;
Blathered in background,
Butt kept the seat warm,
Pigments danced
Poi ballet,
     -Partitioned plie,
     -Back straightened, elbow
     -Bent, wrist turns
     -Resilient;
Feather calamus
Suspended barbule
Ferrules, soaked
Droplets spread,
     -Thalamus marbles
     -Registered streaks, rolled
     -Rarified
     -Outpourings;
Likeness imperilled
Life's assuredness,
Prowled canvas
For mirrored,
     -Established shadow,
     -Light; artificial
     -Impastoed,
     -Natural;
Disremembered shot,
Musings melded shock
At sublime
Surveillance,
     -Curatorial
     -Against contrivance,
     -Cause, effect,
     -Recorded.

9 November 2019


(This 'duet' is based on a drawing (1982), and a painting (1984), of the top sitter, and two paintings (both 1983) of the bottom sitter.)




   




 
 





                     

Patrick Angus 28 September 2019

 
                    (Patrick Angus 1981)


After Picasso,
Boyfriend, shared living
Space, working
Some odd jobs,
     -Locker fob holder,
     -Crisco provider,
     -'All the world's
     -A stage, ...all...'
'Men merely players,
They have their exits
They have their
Entrances,'
     -'And one man in his
     -Time plays many parts,'
     -Fits and starts,
     -Bleared layers;
Parental liars
Doublespoke from scripts
Approved by
Dr. Spock,
     -Maternal lectured,
     -Fetched stillborn etchings
     -Disfigured
     -By blunt force;
Seppuku tanto,
Forged into forceps,
Extracted
Desire,
     -Erotic brandished,
     -Solitary hands
     -Foraged in
     -Confinement;
Billboard promotions,
Theatre marquees,
Overplayed
Public acts,
     -Overshadowed set
     -Pieces stage crew struck
     -Unveiling
     -Flecked back walls;
Stacked decks of back rooms,
Private flush varnished
Curtained schlong
To full house,
     -Pulls doused bare boards, knees
     -Crawled in spent flannel,
     -Featured stripped,
     -Banal shows;
Lines erased, boards, scraped
Of hog-tied pigment,
Bruised into
Existence,
     -Self-portraits within
     -Bartered mirror stared
     -Down, losing
     -Ligaments;
Covertly observed
Lineaments addressed
Intimate,
Arresting,
     -Narrative viewpoints
     -Of impermanence
     -Redressed their
     -Poverty;
Third wheel punditry
Admitted one to
Proximate
Languishing,
     -Three point turned attack
     -Remitted depths of
     -Orifice
     -Labyrinth;
Scenes postulated
Unsolicited,
Recursive
Banqueting,
     -Brushed innuendo
     -Tempered consummate,
     -And frankly
     -Alluring,
There lived a Santa
Barbarian, who
Longed to blow
Clarions,
     -Engaged in banter
     -With sectarians
     -Taught Greek by
     -Hadrian;
In Apollo's rooms
Aught pedestrian,
Enslaved by
The rhythm,
     -Brought unstoppable,
     -Hedonists groomed to
     -Indenture
     -Their pythons;
Lithesome, inclined toward
Material world,
Where, con freed,
Money talked,
     -Diphthongs declined from
     -Hanky panky screed
     -Denatured
     -Of honey;
Boney placater
Banked on bangathon
War between
Youth and age,
     -Boys do fall in love,
     -Soothsayer's adage,
     -Disparaged
     -Naysayers;
There lived a New York
Artist, alone, drew,
Ars longa,
Vie brevis,
     -A limpid martyr
     -To gallerists' views
     -That wagered
     -Dry canvas;
Honestly displayed
Priced out-of-pocket,
Placed at hand,
Out of sight,
     -Heard in dried, downward,
     -Smooth strokes, felt inside
     -Upward twists,
     -Impasto;
Applied impostor,
Insinuating
Dissembler
(Blended in),
     -Covert procuror,
     -Took on bailed out tint
     -For a blind
     -Run through shade;
Sharp edged, amorphous,
Delineated
Sensory
Conditions,
     -Censored existence
     -Published bilingual
     -Dialogue,
     -Narration;
Admission paid to
Walk dioramas,
Corporal
Museum,
     -Purposeful seizures
     -Laid recognition
     -At the feet
     -Of cultured,
Uniform secured
Guarded access to
Wall space punched
On the clock,
     -Leisured accession
     -Afforded Wall Street,
     -And Warhol
     -Denizens;
Show Palace stalls nixed
Gallery stable,
Backroom deals
Darkroom sales,
     -Finessed shots fianced
     -Coterie, tabloid
     -Features to
     -Celluloid;
Deltoids, pectorals,
Abdominals, quads,
Studies made
In Chambers,
     -They never stayed on
     -After favoured, rent
     -Boys- not tricks-
     -Encumbered;
Reveries tucked in
Domestic sphere drew
Out ripened
Meatiness,
     -Masculine resolved
     -In medium, took
     -The hotdog
     -For a roll;
Wiener diary
Shook idolater's
Pose fixed stare
Direction,
     -Protracted eyeballs
     -On eyeballs ruptured
     -Subsurface
     -Ventricle;
Public's fickle itch
Scratched, fiery blood
Sport fanned, twitched
For new schtick,
     -Artists' paintballs shot
     -At canvas, figures
     -Perceived bled
     -Emotions.

28 September 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