Ceramacist
copyright 1990, D. Leilehua Yuen

 

Throwing pots all day

She sat at the wheel

Left leg pumping

Creak and whir and thump

Drawing useful shapes

Taller and taller

From a lump of red clay

Slicing them off

With a shining wire

To set aside and dry

Before their plunge

Into electric fire.

 

1990, D. Leilehua Yuen