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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