Oddity

Accepting a challenge to pick up more cues, this might become a series.

A man showed a picture of Greek vase
on a webinar this morning.
On it, in ochre and black, an image:
a man and a woman.
He left, she right.
He standing, she sits.
He holding a cat, she a duck.
What the f?

Look, he said,
at the animals’ expressions:
cat surprised
duck gormless.
Look, he said,
at the woman’s hair
and her diaphanous gown.

And we move on to other things.

But
(am I alone?) LOOK
The man has nothing on.
Nothing
Unless you count the scarf looped behind,

over both his arms
diaphanous as the frock
So his cock
and orchis bloom under two
small pubic leaves
Go completely unremarked.
Apparently.

What the f?

Ducks, the web says,
were elite pets. Ah.
And associated with Aphrodite. Aha.
Cats, apparently,
with Artemis, huntress. Aha.
and protectrix of girls.

Oh.