when I was a child
I played Loki the norse trickster god
in the class play
& one of my lines was:
where there’s a wall
there’s a way.
too often
we fear the trickster.
we forget she is essential
for she teaches us how
to scale walls.
Tag: strength
sculpture
what if
you are
a ragged block
of stone
throughout which
are woven
thousands
of nerve endings
and life
chips away
with her
iron chisel
& each time
hurts
a little more
but
in the end
you are
a masterpiece
face to face with the sky 