Odes to the Fashion Photographers - sonnets by Haydn West
Ode to Patrick Demarchelier
Leopard cub soft on cherry red leather
Menageries of images transport
A love forged world the axis a feather
Spinning a woman in candy pink shorts
Dawn in Paris monochrome love of life
Confiding confidence controlling choice
Peripatetic crystalline blue eyes
Products are dreams but dreams must have a voice
New work makes a beacon of gold laurels
Not dull ennui or crass repetition
A craftsman’s nod to the schools of Florence
Where magazines beat art exhibitions
Showing what brings pleasure to the senses
A lustrous clenched seduction of lenses
