Not totally photo related, not just a journal. A bit of both.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Ah to do the work of an Amphora



The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

-- Marge Piercy

Ah, to do the work of an Amphora or to make a Hopi vase...

Mike

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