Beauty by Jacqui Corcoran

Daffodil Golden Harvest, 
by Scottish artist John Stoa
Step out, then deeper and deeper in
To the enormous eye set in a clock,  

Am I its wayward daffodil to arrange?
Aged skin its sticky plaster to remove?  

And the path winds like California
To the slab of metal where I am made;  

Ringlet once more dangling off a gilt frame
And then, again, the slow build to dust.   

                                                                
jacqui corcoran © 2011