Reaching into Blue Ripples

(Image from Gabriele Lusser Rico's book Writing the Natural Way)

An artist
reaching into blue ripples
embraced circles
and carved wholeness
out of wood

At the center
the hand of God
creates hoops of light-

Fingertips touch and say
the left side of the body knows the right

A wreath of eucalyptus leaves encircles me-
I can taste blue ice sliding against my tongue.

Dear Readers:

This poem was written while using a writing prompt from Gabriele Lusser Rico's book "Writing the Natural Way." The writing exercise was to write a list of associates from looking at the wooden sculpture (shown above). I no longer have the original list. However, I can tell you that the poem has three different characters, there is the artist, who is creating with wood. There is a creator character creating out of the ethers. And there is the mediator who connects the artists work with the etheric creations of a creator.