You Just Never Know
You and I don’t know the man framed in the doorway—
and he doesn’t know he’s in this picture, and the room
doesn’t know my friend and I see it as a ballroom
we name a leap into the museum of emptiness.
We see possibilities, not a waiting room with two lonely
benches, who will not know any viewers.
Does this room invite you to seek something you don’t yet
know? What do you know about a doorway, a room? a stranger?
I start to wonder what dance of art was here before?
Perhaps it was the exhibit of Aaron Fowler’s larger
than life works? Perhaps it was in this empty gallery,
Aaron played on a piano for hours searching for inspiration —
little knowing he would create a piece out of wooden siding
his friend was removing from his house —
a large-scale sculpture where those boards become
88 keys..
Perhaps the room still echoes with his dreams and ideas
he coaxes— following his Grandma’s mantra, inviting
us to follow it too: you need to speak it into existence.
- © Kitty Jospé 2021
Since 2004, Kitty Jospé turned her work as docent into explorations of ekphrastic poetry, and pursued workshops and an MFA in poetry. (received in 2009 from Pacific University, OR) Since Feb. 2008, she started weekly sessions to help people to be more attentive readers and increase appreciation of good poems. Her 6th book, Sum:1 appeared in March 2021, http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2021/jospe.html
You can view more of Aaron Fowler's work here: Aaron Fowler
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