Art of Reformation

You can take a hunk of brown moist modeling clay

squeeze it in your hands and eye it oozing between fingers

like ribbons rolling out on the table top

shape it into a dove or a fish or a water bowl

maybe throw it on the wheel and tactilely

coax it into a vase or an abstraction of yourself

and then having reshaped the stoic block into sculpture

you have to decide: put it in the kiln and fire it

preserve its beauty in brittle perfection

or keep it supple and soft, wet and moving

so that when the times require creative reformation

you can give thanks for the dove, the bowl, the vase

then reimagine what this poetic mud can be

and spin a chalice or hand-shape a plate

and invite everyone to bring the bread and wine

or get a camera and pose the earthy medium

flip the shutter once, repose, shoot again

and make this reformation into claymation

animation of the potter Spirit keeping all things fluid

aquifying calcified statues like you and me and church

freeing our joints to be the art of God's desire