... just floating gently back to earth having shared in your world-turning day yesterday. The excitement and immensity for me, viewing from this side of the Pond, was palpable and second only to the euphoria experienced in The Mall outside Buckingham Palace at the Wedding of Charles and Diana, which I was fortunate to be a part of back in the 1980s. I pray that this fairytale endures to firm reality. Obama is an exceptional man in every possible way. He is that very rare combination that makes for a pro-active Visionary, being both Dreamer and Realist. Of such are miracles inspired, divined, woven, executed and made. God WILL bless him and move greatly through him and his ways... He already has. Have confidence, trust and hope, America! :)) xx

Ah me... back to basics...!! Not a direct Saartjie Baartman follow-up, but a tangent of thought from her, I guess. K xx

PIERROT-PIERRETTE


Plaster sets against my face,
a roughcast of my features.

I ease away the casing,
smooth its craggy lunar surface
to a shine; observe my likeness
in quiet Venetian ripples,
mirrored inside.

Finery and fantasy painted on,
the mask portrays another self,
faithfully combines my honest
contradictions:

flamboyance elicits
the latent unseen;
stillness beneath,
the elision/ellipsis
of sounds and energy
resting.

Bonded, each to other calls
with intimate expression.

Naked and with tenderness,
other to each responds.