Alexander Harrison, American
Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Under Her Maiden Name, Georgia O’Naturel, Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// When the model asked, “How should I pose?”
He replied, “Brushes! Take one of those.”
Turn around so it seems
that you’re painting those beams.
Just be sure that your T&A shows.”
/// “But why am I painting on wood?
And with such a small brush? That’s no good.
If some paintings I’d do
I’d use canvas like you.
I don’t think this will be understood.”
/// “You just leave that to me,” he replied.
“Although what you say can’t be denied,
no one cares what you paint
and there’ll be no complaint
just as long as I show your best side.”
/// She’d been wondering why she’d been posed
in an attic, not fully enclosed.
It’s symbolic, it seems,
for those wooden roof beams
are like she is, completely exposed.
/// All these cobwebs, a fine silky lace,
have infested this old rustic place.
She can brush them aside,
(thus far, no spiders spied),
but she’ll freak if a web hits her face.
/// It would seem this pose highlights her seat,
which, all good men agree, can’t be beat.
(Not unless, when she strips,
she says, “Hit me with whips!”)
But that’s moot. Patron paid to see feet.
/// The rich patron wants no one to think he
has odd preferences some might call “kinky.”
Her bare feet must be seen
on the floor, but scrubbed clean,
so there isn’t a hint that they’re stinky.
/// How does Alex, the artist, condone
painting scenes that make “foot-lovers” moan?
He assumes the new owner
leers at art as a loner,
safe at home, leaving real girls alone.
/// Georgia painted sand (desert, not beaches),
with a style all her own, and it teaches
us to value finesse,
not her state of undress.
View her art and ignore Georgia’s peaches!