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Exposure
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
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Early 1930s a young ballerina
Photographed at I'Opera de Paris
Dimly lit dance rehearsal studio
Results sensuous and atmospheric

Year 2006 greatly disappointed
To find new dance rehearsal studio
Equipped with flourescent lighting
Results conflicting lay of room and ballerina

Two women leapfrogging over one another
Nude on the surf
Lens smeared with vaseline
Soft focus entry effect

Moth orchid in greenhouse close-up
Fans turned off to control breathing
Timed exposure with stopwatch
In one hand while using the other to control release

 

Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist

 
 

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Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on February 11, 2006
A case in point of where more is definitely less, and "progress" is not necessarily a good thing. The brain is indeed the biggest sexual organ going and it loves to be massaged and made to think for itself, not have everything stuffed right up in its face. Methinks smeary lenses in this case are way better for the eyes of the mind than digital precision which - in this case - seems to be artistic circumcision. Or am I totally at the wrong party??!! A Christening instead of a Bar Mitzvah??!! :)) Wonderfully evocative and pure art, demonstrating Bolshoi poetic precision. Blessed be blessed, Kate xx

Reviewed by Joseph* OneLight*® (Reader)
Reviewed on February 11, 2006
Sounds like your photographic memory at work, Sage. I absolutely love the ending.

Love & Light,
Joseph

Reviewed by Peter Paton
Reviewed on February 11, 2006
Kenny got it below Sage
This is a stormer for St Valentine Day, subtle and classy !
Has dramatic and sensuous overtones in the thread and lens
Peter

Reviewed by KJ McPhee
Reviewed on February 11, 2006
dance ballerina dance.... you dance your readers into the ballroom of romance, sage. The flashbulb choreographic poet that you are!


Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on February 10, 2006
I don't get it, I just don't get it, but I like what I see and read, & two nude women, now you know you got my attention...LOL! Ed

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on February 10, 2006
Exposure is exactly the right title for this one! Great write.

Reviewed on February 10, 2006
Sage,

Wonderful write; very well done! BRAVA as always!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on February 10, 2006
excellent display of allegory and metaphor ...

Reviewed on February 10, 2006
Sage,

Nothing hidden from your creative lens...WOW!!!!!!!! Well done!!!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Chrissy McVay
Reviewed on February 10, 2006
A lovely poem in the Valentine spirit.


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