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NUDE IN 1954
(to a photograph taken by Cole Weston)
aside from baby pictures
it was the only time I ever posed nude
so I suppose
because the flesh was mine
I blow the whole thing out of proportion
but every time
I see my pale young body
held in the arms of that splintered tree
I cannot help but draw the parallel
it was all there that day
the threatening sky
hanging
like the blunted blade of a guillotine
the hill
black as the one at Golgotha
the tree
electric and waiting
we both saw it
but you were older and owned the camera
and so it was
that I
stripped of everything
climbed into the wooden harness
and made the moment work
and now...
centuries later
I'm told that what I did for art
has made my backside
the butt of smutty remarks
that in the city of New York
undesirable women
look and leer
licking their lip
s calling me stud
that I who have stepped to the thud
of Norman Mailor's drum
have been framed and hung
in leather-bar bathrooms
that I so shy I turned my face
have come to see my body bought and sold
in the marketplace
as always
the real crucifixion
comes long after the original event
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Stark Naked in '69 and '79
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sunflower Ink, Published 1980. Paperback, xv, 81 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with photographs, some in color, by Cole Weston, Edward Weston and Kim Weston, and with sheet music. Preface by Maurice Friedman. In Very Good condition. Cream illustrated paper covers, front with color reproduction of a painting by Donna Stoner, rear with photograph of the author by Kim Weston; mild to moderate overall surface and edge wear, some spotting and soiling to front and rear covers, light overall toning. Binding tight. Mild spotting to edges of text block, endpapers and half-title. Otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Collection of poems by Ric Masten, the Carmel-born poet, folksinger and Unitarian minister who lived in Palo Colorado Canyon in Big Sur, pairing his poems and song lyrics of 1969 with new work of 1979. In his introduction to the 1979 section Masten recalls how his friend Cole Weston persuaded him to pose nude in a tree for a photograph in 1954; that photograph, Nude 1954, is reproduced here alongside Cole Weston's Surf and Headlands (in color) and Coast Near Bixby Creek, Edward Weston's The Chambered Nautilus, and Kim Weston's The Friends. Includes a preface by philosopher Maurice Friedman, an author's note, and melody lines with chords for seven of Masten's songs, among them The Walking Voice, Peace Parade and Demian's Mirror. Seller Inventory # 20261020010
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