Look at Her
If she could give you nothing but
A wink, a wave, a flounce,
A sashay showing off her legs,
She would not stint an ounce,
For she desires, requires, aspires
To flirt with you anon
In hopes that with these wiles of hers
It’s she on whom you’ll fawn,
Because she has a crazy crush
That cow-eyes cannot cure
And wants no more in life or death
Than be your cynosure.
Art-Colored Glasses 
Oh, how we want to be noticed, and at the same time are dreadfully afraid of being noticed! What a battleground we present, our desire and our fear. 😉
Yes indeed, you and I both know very well how that goes. 🙂
… the duality of the human condition, which my darling ki describes so well…
. . . a duality that I know my dear Lindy Lee understands fully, too . . .
Your words echo so beautifully from within.
Graciously said, Jesse. Thank you!
How did you produce the dancer image?
Digitally (mostly in Photoshop). I can’t remember the precise process, but it started with a photo I shot of a dancer in an art gallery, under fairly ordinary lighting. She was facing a wall of paintings, so first I deleted the background, except for the floor lines. After that it gets iffier–I would guess I converted the image to black and white, pushed the contrast to an extreme (possibly using the Stamp filter in that part of the process), inverted the black and white and reverted to RGB color to add in the blue tones. Probably would have taken me a tenth of the time to do the same image by hand, but that’s because I’m so untrained with tech and have to do it all by trial and error (LOTS of the latter). 🙂
Thanks – I thought it was a stunning image.
Who once did crave to be ‘The Cynosure of Popularity’,
has resolved to be ‘A WordPress Pseudo-Anonymity’…
😀 😀 😀
I love what you did with the photograph, Kathryn … even in trial and error … then, isn’t that the creative process. As well as this ‘game’ of hide and seek, the engimatic flirtatiousness of the artist. Lovely!
Life is a big experiment from start to finish!