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Embrace Creativity

Living an artful life to me is about looking at the world through a creative lens, which is not only limited to a canvas….

Miss Evelyn of Carson, California 

Inspiration for Unzipped

In my mother's kitchen

beside the pot of hot oil

you tell me stories.

In your black chiffon dress 

you wait to be seated.

You drench the chicken.

 

You grind your heels into the wooden floor                                            and crunch corn flakes.

"Excuse me."

                                         "We don't serve you coloreds," they say.

You think of your mother

bent

losing tears

on a hot iron                                                                                                             oil splatters.

 

You feel her iron inside you

burning open your mouth

to share a story.

 

© artwork 2017 by Elaine Piechowski. All rights reserved. 

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