cati PORTER

I. What the Subject Reflects

Taut

as skin

 

stretched

 

 

over the drum

 

  

of the body,

 

as a sheet

 

across

a bed,

 

 

canvas reflects but does not mirror.

 

 

The subject

            wears nothing

            but your gaze;

who she is –   

            not the women she models.