Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

• •

Alcon Blue Butterfly, Artist in Residence

Photo by Garel BIDI SINDA on Pexels.com
My bones melted
internal collapse
beginning at the hair rag
a whole brain
sinking in half-firm gelatin
eyeballs pop
as skin fabric
folds
blending into smooth
strawberry puree
creasing in ripples
as the pastry chef
scoops with a stainless-steel paddle
"Ripley 8" ribbons
to pipe mums
all the way down
across
watery milk, rheumy
as it oozes out of orifices
pilling from my pores
limp
skin pile
over my black and white
Nike
dunks
sculpture - in view
pause
she raises the sharp
knife
Napoleon splits
crumbles
I lick the walnut cream
collateral, creation
not you nor I