Revolution of Crosshatched Dimensions
Charlene Swobota, inspired by Weightless Installation
York, PA 2008

Wire ribbon mesh curled
Around claimed space,
Encompassing air as definition
Like healthy discs, spinning,
No longer compressed,
But whole, round, and filled –
Rotating planetary vertebrae, freed
With good range of motion
And mobility again.
Only secured,
aligned by shadow,
An xray on the wall: my spine flattened,
Have my doctors forgotten…
That this 2D glimpse inside of me,
represents a 3-D form: My body?
I reclaim it now, twirling redefined
Having viewed this installation, live,
Reflected as a poem,
on a 2-D sheet.

Weightless
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