Sculpture

Somehow it all works together,
a crazy sculpture of parts and pieces,
throwaways and treasures,
junk really,
pieced together by fate or madness,
God’s whimsy, or perhaps his wisdom,
and produces something more than art:
magic.

About this poem

Come on, tell the truth? Don’t you stop every now and then and ask – “How in the world did I get HERE?”.

The picture is of a sculpture outside the Tilting at Windmills Gallery in Manchester, VT. The woman who made this, and others that are in the gallery, is Jenny Horstman. It is worth a look at her work – it’s marvelous. Below is the whole sculpture…

Tom