James Walton #73 Potter's Wheel

I saw you straight away

although you had to point yourself out

to the avid collector recalling years

you were always on my horizon love

like a maker’s relief embossed on an urn

the artisan ownership engraved

by an apprentice’s hand

how beauty is marked

by the young's flensing hope

cut down to the bone of broken despair

then braised for dyes to hold shape

in the overlay finish of earthenware

did I tell you I am awash with cracks

yet the enamel evokes a chrysalis

no matter how you hold it up to look