Animal Hard-on
— for the painter Walton Ford
I expected to find these landscapes deserted but they are replete w/ hidden fires— elephants w/ inescapable hard-ons, birds swarming sinister a sever’d branch, & here a bonobo eats pomegranate in a moment of vulvig swell It felt electrig w/ power you know These paintings! Like listening to music! Each one a rare moment, and humanless (There was a person in one of them, the one w/ the bats—was he stranded there? I couldn’t read the small writing, it was on a postcard) I too want to be painted—I climb out on a sever’d branch, Robert, a human animal— full w/ electrig power—I wait for you & the birds hand on my hard-on like a shipwreckt sailor, exotig fruits rotting in my mouth