for Cody

Cody Gibson is one of the creative artists assisting me with the reboot of www.williamfdevault.com and we have been discussing the creative impulse a great deal. Her work is erotically charge, but with a restraint of spirituality and romanticism that peeks through. On challenge, I wrote a work about the person I see behind the work.

for Cody

Eye of an angel
heart of a saint
crossing to feral
to surrender a taint
and a wink and a nod to a forgiving God
who knew when created that she would be fated
to seek her expression in an artist's obsession
and recognize beauty as a burden and duty
to draw out desire with her own gentle fire
that burns as it turns
hearts to her spirit drinking
all the while thinking
what it would be like to touch
something, someone so much
like a kiss of a spirit
or the flesh that lays near it.


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