Albert Anker, Swiss
Young Superman, Still Working on the “Tall Buildings in a Single Bound” Thing, 1866
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1171 (3/16/15)
Artist info is pointed to in my comment at another blog entry.
/// Bending over, Urs faced to one side,
so the leapfroggers spread their legs wide.
The boys played these fun sports
with bare legs and no shorts.
Urs turned sideways, in case they’d collide.
/// To the baby, his grandmother crooned.
Baby laughed when he saw he’d been “mooned.”
Urs would not point his end
at each leapfrogging friend.
(He had done that last time and got spooned.)
/// Dark-haired Kal— he’s the boy with a cape—
practiced vaulting, and he was in shape.
The next boys in the queue
do not know what to do,
and they look like they’d like to escape.
/// Hans is next, and he’s feeling chagrined,
Hit the dirt; got both knees badly skinned.
He fell down to the ground
startled, hearing the sound
of Urs, just as they touched, breaking wind.
/// When most of these boys have grown older,
more self-assured and a lot bolder,
they’ll have given up leaping
for attempts to be sleeping
with a girl who wants him to enfold her.
/// This game is, for a few boys, revealing,
the first dawn of a kinky new feeling.
Leaping over a guy
makes them next want to try
leaping on them— that’s much more appealing.