Nude

To bare the body is to reveal stories.
        How she owns the light and makes
her skinmaps and close-ups of bones seeable
        amongst the shape-shifting shadows, her lower half
outspread like a wishbone.
        How her private core hides behind the frail fences
of fingers. How she sophisticates her neck
        through a supple twist, the way
a young doe discerns some forest’s nuance, slighting
        the far-off hunter, poising her head into a profile,
her hair with strokes of white light,
        eloquence of her mouth, nose, eyes.

Then how she uncurls into another
        body of work. This time like a cat in her midnight prowl,
slinking towards the moon-lit window.

How she ascends, eyeing
        by the shoulder, in transience of breath,
'til the camera glimpses
        her most perfect compliance.

-Arian Rey Tejano © 2012 A Noiseless Patient Spider. All rights reserved