Silhouette (2009)

Silhouette (2009)

(December 25, 2009) Silhouette. Auckland: Pania Press, 2009.

Silhouette

Is form your master or your slave?
Diane von Furstenberg’s aesthetic:
Lots of layers, flowy, elegant
Marlene Dietrich in 
A Foreign Affair
a spy, a glamour girl
Berlin, Shanghai …

I set the video rolling on longplay
halfway through the night before 
it nets up everything
for those six hours
Project Runway included
our Saturday morning ritual
over toast & jam

My taste is impeccable
Daniel’s pompous declaration 
earned him a braying laugh last week
from poster-girl Kenley
This time her skimpy dress
is “simply not enough”
to net the prize

No-one can layer prints like you do
Tim flatters
Diane accepts the tribute
as her due
The designers wet themselves
with glee to serve
such a big name

Is form your master or your slave?
I am an artist on the level
of Michelangelo or Van Gogh
thundered Santino
two years ago
Where is he now?
Designing quietly, one hopes

in Venice Beach
Supererogatory, yes
the insights
quasi-accidental
& yet I feel myself
debate the cut
fall for the sharpness

of a silhouette


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