Broken Shells

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Judy Clem: Poet, Artist and co-owner of Lasting Images Photography

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Broken Shells

I search for postcard-perfect specimens,

oceans moaning in their depths.

Surf belches forth

broken pieces, survivor bits

of crash and thrash, puzzled guesses

at what they were

or what they might become.

I choose fragments for their shapes,

colors, the way they feel in my hand.

See how this one's edge is smoothed,

worn weary before it reached me?

A gray spiral like an eye.

A curl, a horn,

a ripple like a potato chip.

I start to arrange them mentally,

see how they might fit-

an abstract sculpture,

jagged mosaic of my own mind.

At first I fail to see it there,

the perfect shell,

the collector's dream,

as if its former occupant walked

straight out of the sea, a suicide

drowning in air, and left a relic

on the beach. I pick it up, turn it over carefully.

It's so complete.

I put it back.

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Creating Art out of Bits and Pieces

That is the meaning of Broken Shells. I take a little here and a little there and try to fit it together in a pleasing shape.

Everyday I seem to notice,to observe, to overhear.

Whatever I piece together forms my poetry and my art . Very little comes to me whole....if it did I am sure I would be suspicious of it, wonder if it were a "plant". So it is fair to say that whatever I create had some previous life as something else entirely. My contributon is to reassemble and reinvent.

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