Handmade Visual Poem

Ekphrastic poem of Leslie Thornton's Handmade (2023)

speaking over

speaking under

speaking through

the water, a chaos [Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers]

or the idea of chaos

the edge of the idea

which bleeds and frays

knits loose threads into a sentence

unravels sentences to rain

and back again

begin, again

the sign is too full

it must repeat again

here, through

cracked phone screens

each reflection

a shard of something

new rain sheathing

down like glass

cutting repetition into earth

breathing change into a body

violent [duality]