At the October Gallery

the Laurie Josephs sculptures

People flooded the room
people from all the world, and of all time

Such a party, such extraordinary wit
when human beauty spoke

Such an athletic gathering of men
and women, as the very bodies laughed
Such sunshine spoke in wood

I saw the mystic centre, planet’s core
was joyous. Eyes and knuckles, backs and breasts and legs

I saw then what we are