Sculpture/Poem (A)

   These are prototypes or mock-ups of various things.

   This first one relates to the journey of the Dreamboat, a method of communication between spirits.

The idea originated in a playing piece or card in a spirit-related game -

There are actually two poems because a sail in this type of sculpture is flat and two-sided. There is a problem side and a hope side.

How can I comprehend

  A world so wide as this?

My foot falls,

and the dust settles

behind me.

Every drop, every torrent

returns to the sea.

This seascape, this cloudscape,

  this swirling turbulence

    stretches on forever.

How can any place be set?

How can a being such as I -

  be defined -

amidst this storm?

What seas did we travel

within our dreams?

  What were those things,

those beings, we saw?

  Not only out of my imaginings,

  my heart, my desire -

 But manifestations of other minds,

  so real that they were real.

The Dreamboat carries a cargo

of spirits’ notions

made substantial

  by our connections

even over great distances

and imposing gulfs.