Posing for a Formal Portrait

Posing for a formal

portrait makes it seem
as if it isn’t only possible
but normal to be dressed

and pressed into a scheme

wherein some consequentially
defining meaning might be caught –
so that in some bedimmed posterity

when you are thought of,

if you’re thought of,  
something might be known,
by something shown: a swatch

of an incontrovertibility: that you’d

been seen, and could be seen again.
That might be nice.
Let’s get painted twice.








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