The New Paradigm Oracle: "Small Circle" by Linda M. Ochoa

N e w P a r a d i g m O r a c l e

"SMALL CIRCLE" by Linda M. Ochoa

npopaint--computer art by Elizabeth Ochoa 

The circle's inside
just under the breastbone
I will make of it 
a small humanity
The circle's not filled
with rational wisdoms
or intellectual images
not hard or brittle 
like bird bones strung
on string
to catch the sun, nor shaped
into the jawbone of an ass
the hip bone of a whale 
or monkey
not even an Adam's rib
Nor is it pounded
hard-forced into a star
or sister moon
does not ask to be filled
like a plate
or bowl
and its face
simply refuses
to be painted, yet
the circle is complete
admits no one.

"Small Circle" copyright, 1976, 1983, 2000 by Linda M. Ochoa. All rights reserved. "Small Circle" previously was published in the "Feminist Writers' Guild" calender in 1983 in Sacramento. All Rights reserved. The Individual contributers to this calender retain their copyrights.

"The New Paradigm Oracle" copyright 1998,1999,2000 by Elizabeth A. Ochoa. "npopaint" (computer art) by Elizabeth A. Ochoa copyright 2000. All rights reserved.

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