Painting by Numbers
The largest parts are numbered with a plain
1, meaning I should use the color of
Your skin in parts without the darker stain
Of body hair—or nipples made for love.
Much darker areas are shown by 2,
Those parts where tufts of nearly blackness grow.
You know exactly where I mean. A few
Parts need the number 3 because they show
A duskiness, a reddish duskiness
Like spots on breasts, and then a different dusk
Inviting me with hidden muskiness.
They mean an 8 is brushed in, like a tusk
That’s found its mark and now is stained with lust
When we have both exclaimed with grunts and cussed.
~ Phillip Whidden