I Have No Shadow, by Sharon Tracey

I Have No Shadow, by Kay Sage (USA). 1940.

  

I Have No Shadow

she says        she has no shadow
but she is a shaman of shadows
she paints two stone cliffs        the rift
you can barely see a couple     in the middle distance
some confined existence

i want to know what substance 
creates a shadow
with hidden stairs 
that leads      to doors
a shallow shell 
a darkness that might          open
to others
    
her paintings will have questions for you

some type of scaffolding      surreal 
& somewhat sinister
what we may find       or not
& read     or not        between the lines
think that
her final act      is
planned
we won’t see it      coming
the future
​
two bullets     shot through the canvas :
Watching the Clock

Sharon Tracey

Sharon Tracey is a writer, editor and author of What I Remember Most Is Everything (ALL CAPS PUBLISHING, 2017), her first full-length collection of poetry. Her poems have appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Silkworm, The Skinny Poetry Journal and are forthcoming in Common Ground Review and Ekphrasis. Art and nature are recurring themes in her work. She has enjoyed a varied career as an environmentalist, policy analyst, editor and communications director. She is currently working on a series of poems featuring women artists of the past five centuries.