The Art Of Loving(For Janice) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

You paint me
in the nude

in the nude

both model & artist
sans clothes

you sublimating
your desire

into paint

until what’s done is done

and you remove the canvas
that comes between us

I becoming
once again

the real live flesh
& blood

that hungers
for your love.

My painted perfection
looking down on us

from its pedestal
this easel

this all too human man
kissing you divine

as you come & come &...
paint still glistening

upon your fingertips.