When I froze
I went to sleep
Or at least my body did
Not so for my soul

I was shifting into being
Although
I did not see that

I felt something frame itself
Around me
Swallow my voice

What happens when you want to move
And
Clay
wraps 'round you

Still I was shifting
unglazed
into being

Life uncoiling
Pulling
Pushing
Transitions

Years
lots of years

And then

My voice was heard

I am not alone
I am seen
I reach out
I am embraced

Scars
and
all

I am here
I am now
In plain sight

I am whole
I am at home
in the sculpture
of my unglazed being

A lightness
shines through
the fissures of my fired body

I smile