Persistence of Notion
It's a long walk
away from yourself
from your carefully assembled
hands and feet
from your chalkboard smile
into the heat
where things form and break
in the suncradle crucible
rocking, melting
joining of grains, of drops
shifting towards
then away
from themselves.
It's a long trip
away from the past
walking shapeless sand
with sacked shell-shatter to carry.
When it's finally laid down
spilled out, you can't stop
looking back at the pieces
pulling together,
pulsing, alive,
waiting
to regrow smile
and feet
and follow you.
~May/June 2014
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Sunday Challenge: Avant-edge
Kerry O'Connor gives us the ultimate avant-garde challenge--to write as if there were no challenge at all. So, I've fished this one, written on a whim, out of the cauldron and revised it today.
Image: Shell and Rocks Arrangement, 1931, by Edward Weston (photo)
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