The Phantom Gallery
“The Phantom Gallery” is a “2D” (or 2 directional poem) was written in repsonse to the 90 Minute Art Show at the Yellow Pines Reading Series in Boulder on September 15, 2010.
Hushed
- in response to Bea Bulter’s watercolor painting, Untitled
the sputtering cyclone of
the golden ghost of hope
curls like the smoking promise
around a glowing womb
rubs the nerve raw
opens to the dawning
shadowed forge of life
a lens of black flame
focuses the whirling circle of pain
into a screaming vortex of mirror shard
the lightening claw
of dreamed desire
hushed in misted silence
The Weaving of Two
- in response to the fiber art pieces of Jill Powers, A Blaze with Light & Red Essence
a blaze of red fiber
a broom scraping sky
skirted with leaf and pale scale
the top chopped teepee
its sap swells sweetly into bone
binds together feather and spore
shapes a basket crowned with stubble
the sunset scorches
the bird stitched night
drills my seed into white hot steel
On Works by Helen Brader
Ancient Words
nothing to say
nothing more to see
the throbbing emptiness
of molding words
the chapel of a broken soul
darkness squeaking with light
Opening
begging to begin again
sucked through the graying door
the smoldering storm of it
pierces the muscled grain of stick
deep within its core
reaching into ragged root
dank with musky lust
the twisted branch
seared to its bright quick
draws me through my shadow
sews me into the skin of earth
a heart embroidered with peace
Red Motion
- in response to Mark Jorden’s photograph of the same name
blurred into vivid line
the stainless pipe
caves in on itself
falls into the tired vase
sheds its shell like a cricket
Red Alert
- in response to Wendy Rochman’s political word art sculpture Alert
alert
Bush’s mind
is missing a few pieces
the thorn stemmed rose
is missing its petals
blood gurgles out thick as oil
in the name of Republican fraud
smoke from the cyclone
curls like the broken promise
of molding words
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