Till I see my Peter walking away

Swimming pool. Callipygian young man climbing out of it. David Hockney’s California dream. The painting: (#1) Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool About the painting. From Wikipedia: Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool is a 1966 acrylic-on-canvas painting by the British pop art artist David Hockney. It depicts the rear view of a naked man climbing out of a swimming pool outside a contemporary house. Peter Schlesinger, for some period, DH’s boyfriend and muse The subject of this painting, of A Bigger Splash (1967), and of Portrait of An Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) And then the pop-music allusion in my title, which has the rear view without the gay-callipygian focus: from Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” from their 1976 album Boston (which you can view on YouTube here). Original lyrics: It’s more than a feeling When I hear that old song They used to play And I begin dreaming Till I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin’ away Then a reminder about DH, from Wikipedia: David…