Agastopia*
(For Bob)
At my dear departed husband’s behest,
my ode extols the female breast.
In a dream world of his making,
breasts on beaches would be baking,
naked in the sun, to gold,
then, unashamed, to brown and bold.
No petty thoughts would cloud his mind,
his excitation, an artful kind,
and as he paints or sculpts or molds,
each scoop of plasticine he holds,
will take a shape of his devising,
as he works, his hands revising
all that God and nature wrought,
their perfect beauty therein caught.
While some malinger at their tasks,
a breast is all my true love asks—
to do what nature first has done
and duplicate them, one by one.
*Agastopia is the admiration of a particular body part.
Prompts today are dream world, petty, malinger, revise, excited and agastopia (the fetishestic admiration of a specific body part.)
Forgottenman reminded me of this post of more of Bob’s sculptures: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2019/07/12/mentor/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I agree with Bob, breasts are to be worshipped. Nice post.
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On the one hand it’s good he was able to channel the fetish into harmless creative expression. Otoh, disembodied breasts are creepy…
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Disembodied body parts of any sort are creepy.
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Lovely tribute to Bob and to women’s beautiful breasts.
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Beautiful tribute, Judy. Tell the truth: were you a model for that sculpture?
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That was long before I met him but I was the model for a different one that I don’t think I have a photo of.
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You don’t mean the potato salad sculpture, do you?
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Ha.. you are good.. No, it was another one.
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Nah, you are good; I just have a good visual memory.
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That was going to be my question as well
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
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I can’t remember if I’ve ever done a posting of his sculpture. I know I have posted his/our lamps.
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My first wife saw breasts in all the early drawings and paintings that I did. After a while I deliberately added them to provoke her. Frankly I was alway more of a leg and face man.
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Bob was all three
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Ahhh. A well rounded appreciator of the sublime!
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Ahhh men.
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A beautiful sculpture. Bob was very talented and I agree with him 100%
Thanks for joining in Judy 🙂 🙂
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I’m no good at favourites 🙂
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