posing positions

the nude model’s name was Mary.

heavy-set, mid-40s I’d say.

any younger and somebody

would call an ambulance.

she was more the flavor of Rubens than Modigliani.

a good poser, though, for the less angular

art students holding charcoal sticks

ready to mark their pages in her image.

a sea shanty to define her would be

“hill and gully rider”–– because

to catch the whale the harpooners

and their oarsmen closed-in riding whaleboats

over and down the waves of the sea.

“whaleboats”..that’s the proper name given to these boats.

but one might think because of what they did,

which would be,.. chasing down the great sperms

often in high seas, sometimes resulting in the deaths

of a boatload of whalers, a more romanticized name

for these boats would be in order.

a “hill & gully” would be a good one.

a “spear-header” would be nice, too.

or a “blubber-dubber ”.––

hey! wait a minute! 

what the hell happened to Mary?

friend

friend lives in London

is warmer than London

is brighter than

is lovelier than

as damp as

as foggy as

sings and acts the vamp

if the script wants her that way

and sometimes

even without the script.

                     

from one who long ago loved her

I recently met someone who said he knew her

although he’s probably lying.

maybe long ago from a distance he had a boner for her

as it seems many young men had.

to break the ice he might have told her he had a dream about her

but he would have be lying.

In order for him to dream of her he’d have to pass through my dream

which is indelible and impossible.