Gnomes.
Life’s
journey.
Transformative.
Each,
laid out
as a
clump of
clay.
Unformed.
Malleable.
Gnome’s
fingers
working
each day.
Moved,
shoved
along.
Life’s
pathway.
Forks
everywhere.
Deter­minative.
Twisting.
Bending.
Pathways
galore.
Little
Gnome
finger­s
kneading
away.
Hammering
here.
Chipping
away there.
Possibilities.
Endless
possibilities.
Artistic
interpretat­ion
holding sway.
Shaping
results.
Once
journey
ends,
they
stop to
*****.
Then
double back,
next
project
on the
bench.
Starting
over again.