Lauren Hynde
Hitched
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2002
- Posts
- 21,061
Thrown Clay
It was enough that her hands
warm the clay and smooth
its surface even as she moulds
folds and creases in a spiral
down around the barber-pole
hardness of the cylinder.
She loved to come into her studio
and fabricate something human -
like God, out of clay: She made him.
It takes shape, round and masculine,
a simulacrum of Her Adam with feet
of clay, waiting for her lips
to descend and breathe life
into this, Her Art. She accepts
her divinity as her fingers
sweep along the rigid symbology.
Her new religion that allowed
this manifestation of the need
that consumed her, clasped
tightly in her hands in offering
to her mother goddess, Isis.
Phallus and fertility and ritual
sublimated through Her art
in a garage-studio out back,
behind the kitchen of her reality.
It was enough that her hands
warm the clay and smooth
its surface even as she moulds
folds and creases in a spiral
down around the barber-pole
hardness of the cylinder.
She loved to come into her studio
and fabricate something human -
like God, out of clay: She made him.
It takes shape, round and masculine,
a simulacrum of Her Adam with feet
of clay, waiting for her lips
to descend and breathe life
into this, Her Art. She accepts
her divinity as her fingers
sweep along the rigid symbology.
Her new religion that allowed
this manifestation of the need
that consumed her, clasped
tightly in her hands in offering
to her mother goddess, Isis.
Phallus and fertility and ritual
sublimated through Her art
in a garage-studio out back,
behind the kitchen of her reality.
This is a challenge response written for a different web site. There are word choices that may seem a bit awkward but let me know what doesn't fit, that's why I'm workshopping it here.