"Epiphany": Art and Poetry by Sheila Benedis

            EPIPHANY

             asemic writing

  no specific semantic content

 

        calligraphic language  

            sinuous shapes

 

 a poem repeated compulsively

 renders itself partially illegible

 

         bypasses meaning

unlocks the power of the illegible

 

      blank between words

           asemic spacing

 

         words of a poem

               crawl in

 

        words crawl out

    go round and round

 

  inside becomes outside

turning twisting road of life

 

    movement of words

       transformation                                                                     

 

           suddenly

  a lively gestural scrawl

 

   an aesthetic impulse

            intuition

 

         a form of art

an engine of quiet wonder 

 

         an epiphany