Aurora 2024

Barbara MahoneyRafferty

Have you made art about it, Healer? The poiesis will begin With fists, streaming tears, But the mark making will begin to speak The good breaking up. Kintsugi strength becomes gold Have you made art about it, Traveler? Drawn out those feelings? On canvas or paper? Make mud into forms? Stretched emotions again and again? Seeking perfection? Have you made art about it, Warrior? I can pass the wet clay, Scribble drawn feelings, Silent stories you tell,

Pound the drums, prove you are here.

Have you made art about it today, Artist? Feel what comes up, taste blood or salt. Drum and stomp and dance,

Paint and weave and bake bread In its own time, but I can be here. Have you made art about it today?

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