A Thin Line
What is it for this white woman to sit in a cushy seat looking at a screen to become prickly uncomfortable watching images of some of her kind doing violence to others who are her kind but not the same skin colour? I hold my partner’s hand after credits close as if the end gives permission to make white quiet snuffling noises rendered speechless. 2 I go home, pace. Sleepless. I search the web for images to give voice for broken noises in my body. Drinking coffee I find Kiefer’s sculpture “Breaking the Vessels” his take on the tree of life. Three tiers of books of invisible words in a precarious balance fragile, gray papers between glass sheets, some angled eventually fall to the ground, shatter like spirits that move in and out of me. 3 Near morning I find Kiefer’s painting, “Athanor.” A figure lying on the earth looks up at the vastness of the night sky, a communion of the thinnest line of light from chest to starry heavens. Catharine Jones Catharine Jones is both an artist and a poet. She is actively engaged in workshops and writing groups including Rhino Forum, Serious Play with Alice Goerge, and Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been published in Poetry Cram and The Journal of Modern Poetry, and a professional journal "Psychological Perspectives."
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June 2025
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