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





   



   


   


 












 
   


   
 

   

   



   
   

   

Unknown 27 May 2019

                     (Unknown ~1981-3)


Forgotten face chose
Favourite plaid shirt,
Fresh from the
Wash and fold,
     -Usual features,
     -Centered view, Peter,
     -Duncan, Jim,
     -Staring off;
Showered just before,
Dabbed cologne, brushed teeth,
Changed from jeans
To khakis,
     -Took a stab at head,
     -Neck lines, retouching
     -Pristine face
     -Deflowered;
Unfolded village
Track lines, subway stops,
Sheridan
Square, West 4th,
     -Reoriented
     -Collar, uprooted
     -Placket, stripes
     -Decoupled;
Debated sneakers,
Shoes, perfect weather
To walk through
The Village,
     -Walked around paper
     -Excising limbs, trunk:
     -Circumvent
     -Pedestal;
A Gotham Book Mart
Reading happenstance,
Backed against
An artist,
     -Cradled recumbent
     -'Til smart look preppy,
     -Loosened up,
     -Propped on chair;
Scooched down to retrieve
Dropped book, unprepared
When standing
Unbalanced,
     -Back bolstered hinted
     -Resemblance, tore off
     -A scribbled
     -Phone number;
Dissembled turn on
At invitation
To pose in
Studio,
     -Stammered message on
     -Machine replayed an
     -Out-of-breath
     -Neophyte;
Triple checked details
Left on voicemail, night,
Address, (his,
'Look forward...'),
     -Arts scenes afforded
     -Fresh models, friends' friends,
     -Bar tricks, the
     -More mature;
Legendary cool
Cavorted in stride
Jazzed Village
Regulars,
     -Hedged consequences
     -With brewed regulars,
     -Company
     -Of yes-men;
Backpacker's dopp kit
Contingencies weighed,
Ballast from
Indulgence,
     -Crayoned dispersal
     -Made catalyst for
     -Decisions
     -On the fly;
Industrial fan
Deep fried, screen door sweets,
Wedged, oak door
Barbecue,
     -Turpentine soaked boar,
     -Oiled rags deprived air,
     -Acrylic
     -Reckonings;
Convoluted pitch,
Caribbean skank
Music, slam
Of cab door,
     -Drunk serenaded
     -Boys, dealer cajoled,
     -'Smoke, X, K...'
     -Whoosh in pipes;
Cheeks flushed, sweat rolled from
Armpits, soaked waistband,
Fingers, left
Sticky, wiped,
     -Prickly heat nettled,
     -Confinement staved off
     -Gallerist
     -Effacement;
Philtrum salt licked, skies
Menaced, replete with
Metallic
Downpourings,
     -Acidic, caffeine
     -Fix, penance for sweet,
     -Distilled malt
     -On the rocks;
On the block, tissues
Mopped pedantic gaze
Ivy League
Placarded,
     -Facile discarded,
     -Facial studied hard
     -With velvet
     -Wherewithal;
Descended to sub
Chamber, surveyed for
Jamesian
Fracture lines,
     -Features, abstracted
     -Marks, spatially placed:
     -Eyes; nose; mouth;
     -Sees; breathes; talks;
Worked casually
From across the room,
Looked up and
Registered,
     -Accredited hand,
     -Struck, carried the line,
     -Or borrowed
     -Suggested;
Felt ingested whole,
Concerned about the
End product,
Aftertaste,
     -Comprehended, through
     -Artist's altered state,
     -What sought could
     -Be derived;
Buried secrets which
Worry inflicted
As lines drawn
Around eyes,
     -Furrowed inroads, and
     -Sandpapered surface
     -Figured in
     -Assertions;
Spared lacerations,
When digging beneath
Progressed toward
A portrait,
     -Scratched saturations
     -Sent fireworks of
     -Blues and greens
     -Into ground.

27 May 2019






 
   




 
   

Richie 19 March 2019

                          (Richie 1982)

Richie, latchkey spawned
On Uncle Charlie's
Downtown primed
Toilet seat,
     -Serviette holder,
     -Approached from under
     -Ware, supplied
     -His asset;
Virtual mascot,
Voice heralded each
Regular's
Arrival;
     -Drawn, pictorial
     -Facet, jacketed
     -Shoulders, Puck
     -Derived head;
Break-up survivor,
Bar constellations
Blanketed
By exes,
     -Glare remonstrated,
     -Consternation trounced
     -Once focus
     -Turned aside;
Monster cormed crocus
Inseminated,
Telescoped
Conjunction,
     -Markings conjectured
     -Untamed sacrilege
     -Which rebuffed
     -Yarmulke;
One-trick pony fluffed,
Flicking dharma of
Potty mouth
Tongue and lips,
     -Lyrical glamour,
     -Backbench cut away,
     -Unwoven
     -To remnants;
Grecian heritage,
Youngest of brethren
Catered ass
Consequence,
     -Faded Hessian flared,
     -Collar angles plied
     -His virile
     -Posturing;
Performance fostered
Predisposition
To assume
Position,
     -Interpretation
     -Composed crucible
     -Inured to
     -Artifacts;
Sordid tales, deep hole
Fed- happy hours-
Downing 'til
Drowning in,
     -Wet rat, graffiti
     -Tagged, neon signalled,
     -Cheated on
     -Encasement;
Tag team promised a
Confetti parade,
Not shredded
Underwear,
     -Credence upended
     -Left vulnerable
     -To misread
     -Agendas;
Pissed off, publicly
Wedgied then pantsed, it
Brought out worst
Tendencies,
     -Obliquely ledgered
     -Gullible, rubbing
     -Strengthened as
     -Survivor.

19 March 2019

   




   


   







   
 



   
   

















     

Chris 5 April 2018

                                 (Chris)

                           (Chris 1983)


Paid to play, have sex-
'Perform'- filmed release
Money shot,
Sign me up,
     -Artist's charm, come to
     -My studio so
     -I can paint
     -Your portrait;
Met director, filled
Out application,
Got naked,
Photographed,
     -Draw horizontal,
     -Delve with bare fingers
     -Breathing musk,
     -Pillar's brine;
Had to get hard, he
Measured it, length, width,
Asked about
Positions,
     -Pressured assertions
     -Fluids, plied within,
     -Chink embraced
     -Or betrayed;
Shared how strategic
Partnerings pump sales,
Who tops, who
Gives it up,
     -Coin flip, flip-flop, plunge,
     -Viscosity thins
     -Perception's
     -Clarity;
So 'Chris,' pizza boy,
Bike messenger, a
Plumber's son,
Delivered,
     -Fervid believers
     -Artfully engaged
     -In parterre
     -Rendering;
Blue balls abstinence
At filling station
Imposed by
Attendant,
     -Enemas installed,
     -Imodium ™ prized
     -By wafer
     -Agnostic;
Food, curbed at midnight,
Swirls, cinnamon, whole
Bean, deep fried,
For others,
     -Cinderellas weaned
     -On outsized nipples
     -Slide unfurled,
     -Slippered, tight;
Worked out, showered, flat
To ministrations
Of stylist's
Scissors, creams,
     -Flat, sensoring flung
     -Around, pulled apart,
     -For held up,
     -Scrutinized;
Exhibitionists,
Crew gawps, camera
Clicks, cocks out,
Crudely stroked,
     -Unit utilized
     -As capstone owner's
     -Pawn, queening
     -Future play;
Exhilaration
Wilts, withering heat,
Foisted lens,
Lights, anus,
     -Sweat equity poured
     -Mopped religiously
     -By fluffers
     -On bent knees;
Sets, reps, muscles worked
On, trainer spots lifts,
Equipment
Spritzed, and wiped,
     -Artist instills flow
     -To line: accidents;
     -Dead ends, and
     -Diversions;
Eruptions walked back,
Spark offs- 'Only you
Can prevent'-
Cauterized,
     -Corruptions bled through,
     -Coffee stain, finger
     -Smudge, crayon,
     -Pencil marks;
Offensive lockdown,
Lookouts staged, sound checked,
Actors in
Positions,
     -Chair faced out amid
     -Angled canvasses,
     -Stacked paint cans,
     -Clear bottles;
Coke-bottle lenses
Splotched, bottom suctions
Length in slaps
Reddened cheeks,
     -Red suffused backwoods
     -Shoulders crown, siphons
     -Liminal
     -Sapling doubts;
Sublime contractions,
Shackled, unshackled,
Vision blurs
With the arcs,
     -OLO-growth's bulbous knots
     -Ring around groaning
     -Barks at bends
     -Of stripling.

5 April 2018

Ken Kosillian and Jim Kessling 6 December 2017

                        (Ken Kosillian?)

                      (Ken Kosillian, 1982)

                      (Jim Kessling, 1982)

                     (Jim Kessling, 1982)


Eyes stare unblinking,
Inscrutable, thoughts
Revolve in
Cylinder,
     -Burial shovel
     -Scrapes recalcitrant
     -Crust, working
     -At edges;
Nape warms, shirt's collar
Hedges, throat's downward
Visible
V first play,
     -Clay embedded rock
     -Impedes inroads, each
     -Squelch marking
     -Inch achieved;
Dabs, brushed strokes perceived,
Canvas flat rustles,
Fluids slosh,
Rhythmic thrum,
     -Seismic discharge, scorned
     -Sediment, levered,
     -Leaving jigged
     -Impressions;
Chest compressions pegged
To tight scrutiny,
Given out,
Taken in,
     -Indentured routine,
     -Disentangling a
     -Face off with
     -Long held roots;
Compelled engagement,
Equivalent for
Adam in
Adamah,
     -Ground aggregate raked,
     -Mineral, earth tones
     -Suspended
     -Across field;
Close apprehended,
Flat circumstance of
Reluctant
Cake batter,
     -Submerged transcendence
     -Shouldered, smooth defaced
     -With wrinkled
     -Outpouring;
Wide-screen replicate,
A lisp redacted
When keeper
Sent on break,
     -Scale leaps, restraining
     -Stanchions, rope toppled,
     -Clarity
     -In lightness;
Full cape to mansion
Transmogrified the
Idea
Of shelter,
     -Beethoven delving
     -Silence composes
     -Thunderous
     -Symphony;
Tympanic cadence,
Steady buzz going
Down massaged
The message,
     -Surreal Socratic
     -Dialogue holds that
     -Corydon
     -Herds contrails;
Mono lithe, mythos
Antidote, shirt thrown
On, fingers
Run through hair,
     -Butt rode chair, barber
     -Ruffled top, shook out
     -Drape, the boy's
     -Eyes twinkled.

9 November 2017

Shirt off kilter, fence
Post neck lines base of
Flower pot
Spider plant,
     -Checkpoint misaligns
     -Feather, visor pops
     -Cv in
     -Ghost's retreat;
Locked up in masked guise,
Scatching at sutured
Lines for blood
Coursing through,
     -Musk shatters under
     -Detachment pressure
     -Embedding
     -Particles;
Muttered critique broke
Spell, compelling a
Strategic
Scoping out,
     -Clairvoyent, tacking
     -Port, resurrected
     -Sail which caught
     -Winds blown past;
Clear-sighted, in close
Quarters, jackhammer
Heart rattles
Comportment,
     -Thoughts sewn fast, eyes knot
     -Buoy below deck
     -Crow's nest kept
     -Debunking;
Rethinking allowed
Virile conveyance
Once harbored
Now floated,
     -What sunk, when yellows,
     -Blue washed, flushed in reds,
     -Evincing
     -Engagement.

6 December 2017