Artistic Hands: Two Triolets I. As clay made flesh, hands left and right can sense in life the sad and glad but mad they might clench fists to fight The clay made flesh, hands left or right with pens and pixels also write commingled hands are seldom mad As clay made flesh, hands left and right reach the lives of sad and glad And fleshlike clay, hands left and right can echo life that’s sad or glad and mime they’re mad, fists clenched to fight The fleshlike clay, hands left and right with kiln-fired fingers ghostly white might mesh with flesh with neither mad And fleshlike clay, hands left and right echo lives of sad or glad II. As clay made flesh, hands left and right and fleshlike clay, hands left and right can sense in life the sad and glad can echo life that’s sad or glad but mad they might clench fists to fight and mime they’re mad, fists clenched to fight the clay made flesh, hands left or right the fleshlike clay, hands left and right with pens and pixels also write with kiln-fired fingers ghostly white commingled hands are seldom mad might mesh with flesh with neither mad as clay made flesh, hands left and right and fleshlike clay, hands left and right can reach the lives of sad and glad echo lives of sad or glad Ralph La Rosa Editor's note: This piece was written in response to the Rattle Magazine Ekphrastic Challenge, August 2016- a work called Clay Hands, by Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston. View it at the link below: http://www.rattle.com/ekphrasis/EC16Aug.jpg The poetry of Ralph La Rosa has been published widely in paper and online venues. Recent publications include the chapbook Sonnet Stanzas (Kelsay Books) and full-length Ghost Trees (Kelsay Books).
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