Freud’s Bowery
For Lucian Freud and his model, Leigh Bowery
The artist means to take control; ribboning linen,
preening paint (ochre, ebon, gold!), laying
light in oily waves to an image
he creates: one absurdly out-sized, nude,
hairless man, mounded bellies hung over dancer’s gams,
long mauve penis ripening with blood
while eyes once lost in a sea of fat and skin
press forward to command, first the painter,
then those who stand in the gallery gaping.
Susan Wallack, reprint from “Threepenny Review,” Vol. 19
CONTACT
For more information or to purchase artwork contact Susan Wallack at:
Studio: 484-368-3539
Cell: 610-608-1915