Reclusivity of Silence

The reclusivity of silence alone in a room;
The woman on a white pedestal is naked and posing.
I don’t remember what I said to her,
But she is in agreement
That her body and affect are
The stuff of artistry.

A picture of a naked woman,

Not that we are there yet,

But this must be the arrangement,

Sets adrift so many passions.

Mystery is the biggest one,

Where I am lost in the design itself,

My attraction,

My mind-numbing infatuation with this character study.

Just as Picasso said:

He was only and always painting himself.

I am taking a picture of everything I’ve ever wanted

While actually wanting to know if the passion is shared

And what it might mean.

I sense she is only contemplating her appointment,

How the stool might not be that comfortable,

if the image would wind up on the Internet,

And some guy like me would find it.

She’s thinking about lunch,

Her studies,

Her boyfriend,

The cause of art,

The purpose of her life.

I don’t think that women ever

Think of themselves as objects of beauty,

As the purpose for living that men attribute to them.

But, they clearly stand for something,

Since I have no other thoughts.