handiwork

By

February 16, 2017

the juncture of beauty and cognition,

practicality and imagination—

these are our clothes.

 

we are wearing art.

unaware that we are muses,

we swim in conception,

sleep among wonder,

adjacent to inventiveness.

 

we are wearing art.

oblivious to our bodied significance,

stunning precisely

because we are canvas,

clay

and stone,

sand

and volcano.

 

our bodies—

surfaced wearings—

steer life into the center,

into stitches,

concentrated colors,

chaotic collaborations.

 

feverish

we glimpse the world

that will be

 

our skin

 

lovely

infinite.

About the Author

Oluwatomisin Oredein
Oluwatomisin “Tomi” Oredein is a ThD candidate in theology and ethics at Duke University Divinity School. Her work focuses on Christian theology from an African diasporic perspective. Oredein is a contributing editor at Marginalia LA Review of Books and the author of the chapbook i have stared down winters.