Art of Poetry Catawba Valley's Patricia Deaton shares her poem inspired by glass artist Stephen Dee Edwards on the October 13, 2018 tour. The sculpture is part of the permanent collection at Hickory Museum of Art.
BOX STEP
by Patricia Deaton
after Untitled (Ballerina) by
Stephen Dee Edward
Instead of two left
feet-
three imagined
spindle legs
bereft of metatarsi-
he moves, stiff as
glass
balance tenuous, at
best.
Long past adolescence
I’m locked as if
suctioned
to my partner’s
chest.
Unaccustomed to
contact
it seems that steam
blasts
from a spout on his
head.
Sweat rings ruin my
taffeta dress.
Despite a fervent
desire for instruction
I will never be able to follow his lead.
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