It is not what it was 30 years ago.

Hips not yet fleshed out

spread four times for four nor the breasts

drafted like a tap handle pulling the favorite on Friday nights

the lines speak to the years and the spots to the life Not one a wasted imprint and yet

how little I have realized it. But now, just as I have given up on attentiveness,

I see it for what it is; a beautiful-perhaps the most ever-

frame gilding a masterpiece.