Del pennello
An admitted submission
to light and sigh,
the flexible stroke
of bristle, which dispenses
colour along the angled
attitude of the communicants,
an artist, a model, and pigments.
Tho Bronzino was quite tactical
which in its time was radical.
gesture still, has always
been a capture
by the brush
for its actors
so what is rendered is the
surrendered challenge
of recalcitrant skin ;
to the artists hand,
the model’s languor ,
a soft tipped
arrows end,
all that bend
to the true
application
of interpretation
with the proper tools
and inescapable
proprioception.
confession
naked
offered up
to charcoal and conte abstractions
just enough truth
in the line of the moment
to render a sigh
angles
and shadows
unfinished
completely revealing
so much that isn't there
and I am left
to fill in the blanks...
Title as prologue ,
Law and order, CSI
Miami. Vice and
other wise,
Seinfeld sitting in the jail
mini mouse and mickey fail
to undo the cartoon hex,
De minimus non curat lex.
The truly humble understand
their arrogance to be
both arresting officer
and judge that remands
them to the custody
of their own company for
indeterminate sentences
which is justice of the sort
that ends everything in ellipses.
I can’t think of anything to add…..
I only get to use the computer
when I am in the library working
on my case.