The Web Poetry Corner - Diane Klammer - Throwing a Pot
Throwing a Pot
by
Diane Klammer
Sonnet for Cheri)
An artist holds a formless chunk of clay
To give it self She throws it down and pounds
It into shape Those hands at work and play
Make warmth and wet and pressure molding round.
An object from abstraction becomes real
Turned faster as her foot impels below
Pulled up pushed down while spinning on a wheel
Her clay becomes, she guides, and art does grow
A pot, concrete and real, with out and in
From clay so slick, so red, so granular
She makes it grace, her hands and discipline
Creating oval, round or annular.