I play with color,

 Watching as it collides,

Recoils

Adding a line, a gesture,

A calligraphic mark

 Colors merge, transform,

Swallow each other up,

All an illusion

 Layers of paint covering layers of paint,

Past lives within layers,

Hiding earlier lives

Loss, grief, rebirth, renewal

 Wandering on an inner-outer journey

Inks flowing into primal maps

Breathing life into the intuitive unplanned moment

The Dress

Ribbons, weave through the tough spiny

Wire-sharp edges of the

Chicken-wire armature

Layers, underpinnings

Of corseted goddesses,

Kali, Shiva, Georgia, Frida, Gaia, Mother Earth,

Titania the Faerie Queen,

Who are they?

I’m nobody, who are you?

The cloak of invisibility

Mythical feminine spirit,

costumed finery adorning the bodice,

A metaphor of layers,

I see you

Do you see me?