Question for You:
When the painter paints the nude's
eye does the painter see what the nude sees?
Like, right? it's watch
the artist's eyes
and how he starts
to tithe and tie the light
behind the night
the first dip and stroke
across the empty canvass and that's a kind
of being
born right I just want to watch
the eyes
can they be
captain and see
to it the hand's
of the first mate
jump to: do you
in your muscle and iris
with your pupil a sort
of stool in the middle
of it all and the earthy orb'd selara
see a nude
the same way
as you see, say,
the braid in the lobsterman's buoy
rope, thick as the middle
of the bored-through
float? Or do you see
that stray strand
of greasy hair or
the bump and bumble
of the bottle's arrival
on the morning step
that lip thick and stopped
and if he's going out early
on the boat, with yesterday's
news around the daily bread,
aside from the perfect-as-quilt-squares
spots she's cut through
for coupons,
I'm likening it to a child
who steps around a father's
studio and listens to the fall
of the conquistador's visor
against the sides of his skull and how
it shuts everything
out but the dim beginnings
in seeing into the eye
like an ophthalmologist
the exposed nerves the floating
retina the seeming finger-
tip touch to the very back
of that eye imagine!!!
and then
the stroke all his own
first touches such an eye
such an eye.
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