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Friday, July 22, 2011

A FREUD OF THE FLESH

by James Penha


No one painted
flesh
like Lucien Freud:

I  work
up an impasto
rich
with assurance
mold it to forms—
I do it urgently;
I do it
boldly—
I do
make the body
mine
as once you gave
grandfather
a piece of your mind.

Dreams beg for interpretation;
I want
sinew.

I wish portraits
of people
not like people;

the people
is paint.


James Penha edits The New Verse News. 
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