Woman, not girl

5" diameter

Porcelain, glaze, and font fired on

Poem:
Insistent
The lilt and vibrating
Tug of life beckons
Unclench and unfurl
Into the electricity
Of full knowing

Now, now, it's always now
Let go the delicate petal
Of promise and potential
Bloom into the
Fullness of
Maturity and consequence
Balancing on the edge of decay

All at once, it's always all at once
This rhapsodic chaos,
Saturated in aliveness and foreboding
I claim my treasure