The Collagist
by Sherri Sarantakis
9/8/98
 

images, images, images
deconstruct, dismember
void of context

cut a face out here
rip a heart out there
pull a mind from its skull

slap it on the background of your choice
a new way to see, a new context
important, valid - but the whole picture?

pieces, bits and pieces
the only way to cope
when overwhelmed by wholeness

mind in a thousand fragments
i'm the new creation
in a familiar landscape

might as well be
Pluto, context
gone AWOL

arm grows from mouth
breast where thigh
should be, a few missing parts

heart floating somewhere
too close to the sun
                      spontaneously combusting