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'The pot I imagine' by Lesley Lebkowicz

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States of Poetry ACT - Series Three

'The pot I imagine' by Lesley Lebkowicz

by
States of Poetry ACT - Series Three

             (first stanza after Rosemary Dobson’s Over the Frontier)

The pot I imagine
is always better
than the one
                I make.

But after all these years
my hands are learning
how to work clay
against the turning wheel
how to have it climb its own line.

Done now, I set the finely turned
white porcelain beside
a small stack of
shallow dishes thrown
by an Indian village potter.
Light glows through
the white; sinks into
the terracotta and sleeps.

Lesley Lebkowicz

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