Sexing The Art
(for Knut)
art is the closest thing we
have outside of ourselves
to an expression of birth
for me the idea of the piece
flirts with me like foreplay
then it germinates and becomes
inseminated, planted, rooted
in the fallopian tube waiting to meet
the sperm donor or medium by which
the idea will be expressed
it gestates and begins to
sprout artistic limbs whether
sculptured in harmonies, or
pigmented on canvas
until when the time is ripe
the artist breaks water
and lets the world
have
the baby of his or her masterpiece
have outside of ourselves
to an expression of birth
for me the idea of the piece
flirts with me like foreplay
then it germinates and becomes
inseminated, planted, rooted
in the fallopian tube waiting to meet
the sperm donor or medium by which
the idea will be expressed
it gestates and begins to
sprout artistic limbs whether
sculptured in harmonies, or
pigmented on canvas
until when the time is ripe
the artist breaks water
and lets the world
have
the baby of his or her masterpiece
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