Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Jade Salve in Porcelain

Ai Wei Wei’s Blue and White Porcelain Sculpture – Princeton University Art Museum
She sits 
pestle and mortar
between her thighs,
protective, soles of feet in butterfly
pounding,
seeds, herbs, plant matter
grinding steadily
scraping
into powder

The sound echoes
from the blue & white porcelain
cube
my eyes tethered
a pearl string forms
beading through each maternal
lifetime

tying us as one

Her spine, lupine
swaying
as if the wind blew far west
for decades
upon
decades

waiting

she continues
listening for me
her pale hands
wrapped in rings of jade
focus

the world disappears
into that green
sticky
salve

devotion
dedication
to my diction

to save whom?