Canvas

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He sketches

She watches on

Poised and still

As a rose in the summer sun

Disciplined an unforgiving in her disposition

Blooming to perfection.

Swiftly across his once blank canvas

Inch by inch

Frame by frame

Her charcoaled figure is brought to life

Her radiance is captivating  

The sensuality in her curves

Effortlessly captured in his portrait.

She is comfortable in her skin

And he is comfortable with her nudity 

Intuitive to her beauty within.

Her hands coiled above her head

Wrapped around the pole at the stage middle

Her back - arched

Her legs - apart

She teases with a smile

Enticing and summoning

Suggestive to the need for embrace

He smiles back

His concentration is stretched thin

Between the reality and his creation before him

His fingers replicate the trails of his eyes

Detailing the outline of his subject.
Both astute to the tension in the air

Yet the reminder of why they could not be

Rested neatly only a few feet away on the cabinet

Diamond studded engraved, “Forever”

Revealing her kaleidoscopic reflection

Taunting her decision to step down from her resting place

Restricting his urge to put away his tools.

This was their final session together

The last meeting of their private rendezvous

She would return to the confinement of her life

And he, to the world that awaiting his gift

Saddening was the thought

Only to be together amongst the scribbles of his page.

Olsfred James 2014©