Another one that was asked of teaching assistant Jen. On a school trip to an art gallery, I’m guessing!
They’d have told you, if they could, that they were
Trying to capture, with their paints and charcoal
What a person is; not what clothes look like.
They tried to show the beauty of the body
It wasn’t rude or sexy, it was honest.
A way of understanding being human.
At least… That’s what they’d say, if we could ask them;
Perhaps they just got bored of painting clothing.
Tom Juniper Poetry 