EKPHRASIS : Art Describing Art : 2015
California Writers Club, Mendocino Branch : A Collaboration : Artists Co-Op of Mendocino
Writers Responding to Visual Artworks
Barbara MacKay “Mirrored Self”
Responded to visual artwork by
Karen Bowers “Moment”
Mirrored Self (Nude) by Barbara MacKay
someone said
paste your pain on the wall
I put mine on the edge
of a shaded canvas
and there it hangs
a phantom breast
haloed in soft green
what’s left of me
my full torso
predominates the canvas
colors playing against each other
hair of rust, jaundiced rib cage
blue-veined buttocks
intervals of white skin
and those sketchy pencilings
the filaments
of my soul
the who I am
not blank inside
just a little faded
waiting for pain to subside
waiting for flesh to heal
waiting for wholeness
someone said
paste your pain on the wall
I put mine on the edge
of a shaded canvas
and there it hangs
a phantom breast
haloed in soft green
what’s left of me
my full torso
predominates the canvas
colors playing against each other
hair of rust, jaundiced rib cage
blue-veined buttocks
intervals of white skin
and those sketchy pencilings
the filaments
of my soul
the who I am
not blank inside
just a little faded
waiting for pain to subside
waiting for flesh to heal
waiting for wholeness
|
my mirrored self
releases me |
