A Week of Papier Mache
Newsprint
cut into strips
moisten with starch and glue
place gently on everything you find
to dry,
Balloon
create our mask
a stretchy resilience
yet after layer and layer
stiffen.
This craft
moments with you
I see you without mask
here as we work, Papier Mache
your face.
For love
creative mess
of our coated fingers
locomotive of creative
mache.
Recommended
Chorus
greek tragedy
a mask for performance
explaining our place and setting
on stage.
Power
is created
with each layer of past
well crafted masks will have much
to say.
To work
concentration
on these strips of paper
to where we place these torn momentos
an end.
A week
of work with craft
to enter a silence
of soft Papier Mache dreams
to play.
© 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann
