haldenlevinThe Sculptor a Sculpture
The sculptor makes a body from clay
his muscles contracting and relaxing
at each curvature to form a whole
body that moves with his hands work-worn but delicate
the breath of life infused by fingertips
how he moves when he cannot leave
until finished when hardened by kiln
when moving into the eyes of the gazers
who see him stand but not move
why does he stand where no man can see
his hands are a part of the man who stands
in the gazer’s eyes they don’t see him
but he’s there in the man who moves
he is the man he has made
the man in the gazer’s eyes
the man who stands where no man can see his hands
that permeate the surface of the body which moves