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30 Apr 2022
Liz
Houchin
New
Moon
May 16th
a horse in fire
Apr 16th
After Anni Albers'
Under Way (1963)
when I lose my way
I close my eyes
like a horse in fire
and let my fingertips
follow your haptic trail
of cotton and wool
cresting and falling
a bedform rippled by yarn
you lead me on, lulled
by the grid, then surprise me
with a twist in the road—
a brocade overlays
your past leaving it blind
but only to the eye
the weave reveals
your truth to my thumb
and I see now
the fragility
of our surface
to the end we are handmade
two hempen home-spuns
our knotted story fraying free
Behind the poem...
My inspiration for a horse in fire is Under Way: an abstract pictorial weaving from 1963 by Bauhaus and Black Mountain College artist, Anni Albers. In cotton, linen and wool, Albers combines many innovative techniques in a bold interplay of thick red and white yarn, suspended against a black background.
