Organic mixed media artwork by Kay Sexton
relief
a peninsula canceled from below
slides into sea.
houses flood the deeps—
abruptly reefed.
tension ends that was
eons ratcheting.financial tides move against
rebar dreams and gradual savings—
a cement pile takes
the better part of winter
to blow away.
downwind a bottlebrush sickens.a capable hull in the shipyard
for sale at the falling price
of untethered dreams—
wonders if it might
regain the tides.a quarter torso reaches
from incomplete sculpture—
the rest imprisoned
and the jailor dead.
the rock relieved to be left alone—
misrepresented now
by an unshared longing
visible to the public.
palpable
their passing conviction
to see a completion inflicted
that would be to the boulder
a lobotomy.
