By briana kassia
Date: 2007 Nov 12
Comment on this Work
[[2007.11.12.14.56.30627]]

Sculpt

you have me stretched
between your hands
wire wound and springing
slippery as clay

warming to your touch
bend and twist me
curve and caress
coax me
into new shapes
Nnew ways
and make of me
something whole and new

then
when I am as wound
shaped to your desire
coiled
ready
as I can be
when I am stretched
to my top limits
when I am
all I am

then
you let me go
lift your hands
and let me spring back

hard
shaken
shivering

or holding to that new shape
molded to your will
soft and warm
to your touch

at rest, at last
and you must choose
to cure me so
sculpted
or
to reshape me
roll me between your hands
and
make me again
another day

remembering both
the shape I was before
and the new one you have made