Throughout my drawing practice over the last year and a half I have stressed observing and recording a visual space that is abstracted by the nature of movement.  Specifically drawing from live models, be them poets on stage or models on a stand, there is a truth when you start observing the space through, behind and around objects in motion, that can capture the essence of a subject matter.  The motion does not have to be sudden or abrupt, maybe subtle and quite, like drawing while conversing with someone.  It helps to allow the definition of a portrait to blur it's own lines and escape convention that may in fact lie through its carefully crafted 'exactness'.  This is not to say that when drawing directly from observation a reality cannot be conveyed, but rather (as a question arises before a concrete statement), what kind of reality are you going for?  I also must state that there is a music to literature and some of these pieces have come about through reading and drawing while relying on the music that IS the transmission from word to brain to drawing, to enable another reality.