Poetry: 'Alternative Glossary of Art Terms'

Abrasion: you remove my surface (deliberate scratches)

Bricolage: I improvise (do-it-yourself desire) 

Complementary colours: our red-green love (wheeling opposites)

Decalcomania: I press, wet, against you (intimate transfer technique)

Etching: you bite into my skin (intricate incisions)  

Frottage: we rub over each other’s flesh (exciting chance effects)

Gestural: you like sweeping strokes (drip, smear and splash)

Highlight: you find my bright spot (intense emphasis)

Impasto: our textured longing (thickly laid on sensuality)

Juxtaposition: we come side by side (pleasure compared and contrasted)

Kinetic sculpture: you move me (rotation and vibration)

Lithography: I want oil-based eroticism (greasy imagery)

Muse: you are salty inspiration (creativity, lick by lick)

Narrative art: we tell transgressive tales (explicit stories)

Op art: our optical illusions stimulate (pulsating and swelling)

Patina: I trace your distinctive finish (mellowing beneath palms)

Quilting: you stitch through our layered bodies (suggestive needlework)

Relief: I am raised, wall-mounted (obscene projection)

Sfumato: we melt into soft-focus seduction (contours hazily caressed)

Thixotropy: I flow at your touch (stirred to fluid perversity)

Unity: our wholeness (repeated completion)

Vanishing point: our yearning lines meet (craving on the horizon)

Watercolour: I am transparent, luminous in lust (wanton washes)

X-radiography: you penetrate, detect every change (a sensitive conservator)

Yellowing: I accumulate dirty urges (discoloured decadence) 

Zackenstil: our sharp hunger zigzags (jagged folds and hooked fingers)