Change (At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016))

Change

At the occasion of artist Becky Fixter’s exhibition, “Impermanence” (July 16, 2016)

1. Shift the colours on your page;

and softly coax your reds and purples,

that have concealed themselves

for years beneath

the permanent seams of this life.

Touch them. Glow them. Let their souls

 emerge, and alter your course.

2. Click the innate lights within,

those ancient synapses of the girl

you once were, and still can be.

Flick on that insight in your world,

firing up the lost electricity.

3. Drift to the forgiving music of

the earth, the oregano greens

springing to reach the hanging

cloudy whites in your air of un

certainty.

4. Freefall through puffs of colour:

down through smoke rings of rose,

lilac, snowdrop and pussy willow

grey rising from the primal pipe of

Persephone.

5. Even after years of dark hibernation,

it only takes the flux of alert female

foresight to snap those wandering

fraying fragments of the self into

the authentic route of your path.

(Chatham Artist Becky Fixter)