Mind
By Toni Holland
Mind is an interstitial
archeologist casting negative space from castoff
Styrofoam. Mind paints
ceramics
red and teal,
fires the kiln.
Mind sculpts
a tiger by layering floor
up shapes cast in the empty space left
by laptops, vases, mirrors, cups.
The pace of a mass produced vase forms
grooves for fur. Gloss
on the eyes burn
at 2200℉. Mind finds
tigers
by dumpsters pacing
in the empty
space of castoff Styrofoam,
brings them to room
temperature.
Toni Holland’s work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, Jelly Bucket, Tau, Rip Rap, and Poetry International (Cinepoetry issue), New Letters, Superpresent, Solstice Literary Magazine; and she has poems forthcoming in Potomac Review and Blue Unicorn. She’s had a Fulbright Fellowship and residencies at The Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center.
