BATHER IN THE WOODS/PISSARRO
He foresaw hardship finding models
who would undress in rural Eragny.
To capture the effect of light
Striking a grassy bank
the woman’s back.
He had to paint the same pose, the women clothed.
We are the elders,
who gawked at Susannah
sluicing in her pool.
We are the elderly voyeurs
peeking under
pigments. Grease and sweat.
The painter’s probe his tool.
His bristle of pig hair.
Glint Literary Journal 