Cyprián Majerník, Slovak
Cassidy Had Always Said She Could Never See Herself Posing Nude. And Technically, She Wasn’t Lying, 1930
Oil on canvas
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/// She’s Majerník’s Reclining Nude (Shy),
fearful someone who knows her might spy
this oil painting and see
that the model was she
by her green right and ice-blue left eye.
/// Her hand over both eyes was a ruse
to conceal they are two different hues,
but her boyfriend might know
her from what she does show.
There are one or two fairly big clues.
/// The girl’s boyfriend spoke up at first sight
of her two different shades— left and right.
Was it eye color? No—
he was staring below
at an uneven tan from blocked light.
/// She had fallen asleep in the sun
and awoke to see what she had done.
Half her top had slipped down
tanning one side dark brown
(not light pink like the covered-up one).
/// The heterochromia glitch
in her genes wouldn’t make the girl rich.
Seen as “eyes of a witch,”
either mystic or kitsch.
Poses here, for pay, without a stitch.
/// The girl’s eye colors numbered but two
when her lover learned she’d not been true.
And so three shades are seen
with the right one still green
while the left eye is now black and blue.
/// One caught lying is often malign,
but a nude who is lying supine,
if her form is divine,
will tempt men to recline
with the goal that they’ll both intertwine.