4/11/54

10.28.54

A Dream Of Whitman
Paraphrased & Painted By Renoir

naked
Twenty eight / young women bathed by the shore

Or the bank of a woodland lake;

Twenty eight girls & all of them comely

Twenty eight / young / women

Worthy of Mack Sennett's Camera, Florenz FZieggfield's glory

Describe
lake,
waters,
sunlight,
girls

They splashed and swam in the wondrous unconsciousness of their youth & beauty

In the full spontaneity & summer of the flesh's self-awareness

Heightened, intense & softened by the soft & the silk of the waters

nude///

Blotted, made ruddy by the energy set afire by nakedness of the body, exalted, --electrified//

spheres / cheeks

--A young man of (50) years regards them, far from them

roundness,
netherlands
curves &

He owns the house on the distant bank.

He is rich, handsome, & empty, standing behind the linen curtains

--"which girl does he think most desirable, most beautiful? They are all beautiful & desirable.

For poverty darkens discriminations, makes perception over-vivid

(& besides has not a 'ranchman said--what is not in the least relevant, since this is america

use paintings/
photographs/
& PB

--That the a naked girl is a proof of the existence of God?)

When is it going? He is going to be among them. To splash and to laugh with them.

They did not see him although he saw them and was there with them

////Point up/

He saw them as he would not have seen them had they been either conscious of him or so conscious of men at or of manhood at all.

This is his enchantment and his privation

As his gaze possesses them---

From PB

...////He felt the wood secrecy,

He knew the une softness

the warmth surrounding him crackled

He glimpsed & the shadowy light//on last year's brittle leaves looked over over looked //glimpsed over

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Where is he going?

Is he going to be among them to splash and to laugh with them?

They did not see him although he saw them and was there among them
He saw them as he would not have seen them had they been conscious
of him or conscious of men in complete depravation:

This is his enchantment and impoverishment

As he possesses them in gaze only

...He felt the wood secrecy, he knew the June softness

The warmth surrounding him crackled

Held in by the mansard roof, ansson

He glimpsed the shadowy light on last year's brittel leaves fallen

Looked over and overlooked, glimpsed by the fall of death
Winter's mourning and the
May's renewal/

May 1962