An Oskar
for S.F.

he wants to see me naked
he wants to see my whiteness
all of it

he wants me to drop my dress
he wants me to be
his bride of the wind

envious of painters for whom
models undress

a poet must find other ways
to cause his model,
what she’s wearing,
whatever outfit, to become undone

he wants who would sit
with him or for him,
to become undone

he wants to be able to
or to have to, plait her back
like hair

plaits upon her back,
when he is done
besides which, she is bare

he wants to see me naked
he wants to see my whiteness
all of it


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
6:03 p.m. 24.12.07