Unfinished
Artist
You transformed me
Turning my asymmetry
From camera flawed
To canvas beauty
Artist
You reached into me
Adjusting my own focus
From pinpoint imperfections
To a broader beauty view
Artist
You reoriented me
Filling out some flat ideal
From perfect picture unattained
To unique beauty breathing
Artist
You unfinished me
Leaving space about my face
For adding off-ness, oddity
To my idea of beauty real, profound
Artist
You included me
In a human portrait library
And made every one of us worthy
Of being painted beauty
— April Resnick
A portrait of me (unfinished)
Painted by Elena Drozdova.
Sitting for her was a profound
experience for me. I am looking
forward to finishing the painting.
sometimesihatemycat 
would you show the finished portrait as well; I’m as intrigued by the ‘off-ness’
Of course, it may be a week or two as I am going out of town before I sit for her again. Thanks for asking.
Extraordinary in many ways
The painting or the poem? The painting for sure, it was indeed an extraordinary experience. We should only ever be painted. Thank you.
Painting. Poetry. You.