Knot

Size: 8"l x 5"d x 3"h

Materials: Porcelain, glaze, and fired on font

Poem:
I see you, my child
And when I say you
I also mean me

Your bloodied cheek
The scar above your breast
Your ferocious eyes
Shining with challenge
Jaws clenched and bracing For a fight…

Come, rest
Let me stroke your hair
And demand nothing
Sit with your soul
Until you can feel
Your beating heart in
My hand

Deep, deep, deep
Beneath the frozen creek
Water flows
Thawing the grey shards to slush

With enough sun
The whole thing gives way
To bird song, green shoots, and Musky fragrance

You are not only the flower:
pink petal, stamen, leaf, and stem
You are also the Intoxicating scent

You are not only the
Bird wing in flight or
Eating of insects
You are also the Song itself in the joy of now

My child, I see you
and when I say you
I mean me, too.