the only mess forward

for all folks with creative cores

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we

set sapphire, chrysoberyl, and tourmaline
into metal cast, hammered, shaped
without regard to placating Symmetry

fuse ink with paper
stripping bare
the assumption
everything is Fine

​leave gaping holes 
in certainties
with swaths of paint
breathing Life on canvas

sculpt questions into clay
with our bare hands,
and with charcoal,
Open mouths which ask:
"what could become?"
 
and play flats, sharps, and trills
​as Inquiry frolics, 
in black and white films
with animated polar bears,
nude.

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