I like the shift to character, Lawrence, after the narrating eye has seen & said.
at first i thought this was on a new poetic thread just begun, but with that final stanza it fits with other 'portraits' you've given us (does this go back to those modernist ones of Eliot (a lady) & Pound?)
Doug
On 2011-09-09, at 2:55 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> one sees, within painting rectangles,
> awkwardly, awkward sense of responsibility,
> continued in small line drawings charcoals
> in fresh formal gesture, surfaces in turmoil
>
> no one speaks
> and then someone says
> bollocks
>
> she looks at them, raising hostility
> bronzing her skin
> carefully painted
> the content of that visible aggression
> unmeant for viewing or interpretation
>
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