Epiphany Poem and Art, 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

 

           viewer fills in

     his own interpretation

 

          words of a poem

                crawl in

 

               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

    becomes an intuition

 

         a form of art

an engine of quiet wonder 

 

         an epiphany

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