Sunday, November 04, 2018

Glassworks – v3


Mesmerized, watching
Mouth open observers
The skill, artistry
Effortlessness in the heat
Of the sweating craftsmen
In the beach air, hot,
On the Vineyard, love.

Living, moving
Molten glass, clear
Droop on the shaft
Entering, awakening
Orange maw open
Mouth of the furnace
Reborn anew.

Glow yellow
Pulsing, living
From the warming
Glistening wet
Solid yet alive
Grow with the blow
Liquid and free.

Spin and catch
Supple flesh flap
Add color and form
Enter again, stretch,
Translucence now
Hot gases, expanding,
Fill the space.

Wipe brow, enter again
Cool and gel, cut from the pipe
Clutched like a Faberge egg
A robin’s egg, fragile, held
By a toddler’s fingers
Placed to firm and harden
Permanent stuff.

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edited November 4, 2018
Glassworks – v3
edited November 3, 2018
Glassworks – v2
Written 6/20/04 14:06
Glassworks
about Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks
somewhere I spent hours,
over many summers in the 1990’s watching bowls,
pitchers, pictures, and more, come to life.

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