Frozen Muscles

This process
Overflows into my body

It is a container
Full of hard to hold tension
Tight frozen muscles.

Inside a second skin
A body within a body
Frozen terror
Racing heart
Panic in my body

My mind tries to contain
My spirit soothes

It is hard, lonely, sand, work
And
Alienating

I cannot be solaced easily.

Maureen McGowan
Workshop Assistant

RED AND BLACK, TRIANGLED MEN, GROTESQUE FACES, STARING HURTING, SOFT WARM, LITTLE GIRL FLESH, FROZEN SCREAMS, CURLED UP, NUMBING, CUT, HOT, WET, SWEATY, GONE