Barbara Brown on fri 19 sep 03
Besides collecting pottery and postage stamps with pottery on them, I
also collect poems about pottery.
I've just discovered some wonderful pottery poems in a new book by Jack
Troy.
The book is "Calling the Planet Home", a collection of 52 poems, 6 of
which relate to pottery.
If you'd like a copy, send a check or money order for $15 (postage
included) to Jack Troy
540 Shively Road
Huntingdon, Pa 16652
phone 814-643-3554
email jgaylordt@yahoo.com
Jack has also written 2 books on pottery.
Saltglazed Ceramics and Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain.
I'd love to share one of his poems from his new book that really touches
my heart.
"Homing In"
How could we have known
in the mid 1940's when she took
mine in hers, saying, Such hands!
Someday you may do something wonderful with these.
Nothing, mother, more wonderful
than this porcelain jar the height of my stretched hand to hold your
dust.
This memory kicks my turning wheel,
and I project my center on the clay that centers me. My thumbs plunge
toward the wheelhead the way deep waters magnetize a dowser's rod.
I muscle up an 8 pound ball of planet to a jar. I draw walls up,
stretch them until they make a womb-space, for your ash to fill. I
shape this void for you in whose inner space I grew.
Three months before my birth I thrived in such a shape as this, and now
I've been at potting more than half my years. Each one I've thrown
informs this fresh and final one for you.
Jack Troy
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Barbara
Barbara Brown phone/fax 408-736-3889
1225 Manzano Way,Sunnyvale,Ca. 94089
http://www.silverhawk.com/crafts/bbrown97
email: bbrown3@webtv.net
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