Call & Response 3: Opening Reception

Tomorrow evening (7-9pm) is the opening reception for the Call & Response 3: Poets and artists in dialogue show at the Grosse Pointe Congregational Church, located at 240 Chalfonte Ave. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236

Below is one of the two pieces that will be shown. The other is a piece that I've shown before and that is the one that poet James Macmillen chose to write a poem about. I'm really looking forward to reading that. I'll show that piece along with the poem by James after the opening. My piece below is based on a poem by Lucinda Sabino. 

Haunted Waters

11x5x1.5

mixed media

Stones of Remembrance

by Lucinda Sabino 

Budapest 

We are huddled in a small group

with our guide, her superfluous words

whipped away with the wind. The bronze shoes

line up along the riverbank and the dead

speak for themselves.

A very old man in green uniform pants

cinched high like the mouth of a purse

plucks cigarette butts from around our feet

into an H&M shopping bag. We watch

mourners with their ancient

and eternal sorrow place stones

in those shoes and some of us lean close

to follow suit.

No one wants to look into the river,

to see what may be lodged their,

a child's toy, a bit of coat with pocket,

all the scattered bones

but we watch the surface, mesmerized 

by the ripples caused as ghosts buffet the surface.

They will not be weighted down. 

I hope that my sculpture does this poem justice and others will see, hopefully, a little of what I saw when reading it.

So, come on out tomorrow, if you are so inclined. Perhaps you'll see me burst into flames or something.