A Super Star at home 1969 according to Diane Arbus
by Alan Catlin
Diane lied to Viva
she lied to all her unclothed
subjects
saying she would only shoot
their faces
That nothing would show
She always revealed everything
Naked from the waist up,
Viva looks as if she is nodding
deeply drugged
maybe just this side of overdosed
or dying
eyes rolled all the way up into her head
under half-closed lids
When she rises
from where she is lying
during the shoot,
this late portrait
could have been
retitled:
Revenant Rising