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"Acrostic Photography Project"

Chapter 1
Gentilesse

By Patrick Bernardy

Golden blood—precious gemstone,
excellence glinting—sparkles!
No best is better
than your worst—
Icarus-peasants who might
launch into pastiche origami of heredity’s
elegant sculptural masterpiece
sizzle within your magnanimous glare.
Sedate them with benevolence,
each green subject adoring.

Chapter 2
Bellamoure

By Patrick Bernardy

A whitened web
of lace and lattice
enshrouds your face—that oval
of sable skin is the graceful ideal
of a swirling nebula
You are my beloved, called forth from
an endless echo
of boundless beauty—the tableau
that inspires all my art and compels my ardor
for your piercing, ebon gaze

Author Notes "It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain." ---Carson McCullers from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,

Chapter 3
Quiescence

By Patrick Bernardy

Quickening silence:
unfolding her calm, she lives carefully,
interested most in
even surfaces on which to lay her head.
She breathes slowly while the eye swirls, but
chastening chaos is never far away.
Envision her fear as ebbs and flows,
neverending, like an eon's worth of ocean tides—
cycles of recurring chaos and calm that
encase her inside a prison of parental cruelty.

Author Notes It's not easy to write about the life of a young child enduring the horror of parental abuse. Children preyed upon by those who should cherish them most must surely enrage the soul of the universe.

Chapter 4
Ordonnance

By Patrick Bernardy

Outsizing chaos, slanting order—
reigns the Weirdo of Pop Art.
Dangerous concepts
of commercial spirituality on pressing screens,
notated with checkmarks of social deviance.
Not to be outdone, this
Andy surpassed in minutes the predicted fifteen,
naming the post-modern
composition a psychological compulsion,
Epicurean-style.

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