Nexus - Sylvia Montesinos

acrylic, ink and metal leaf on paper
10"x10", mounted on wooden panel 3/4" deep, framed 
 
I AM OZ 
by Deborah Downes
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Can you see me?
in the kaleidoscope of colorful pattern
shifting with the slightest twist
of mood or circumstance
Can you see me?
aloft on a gossamer rainbow
a breath of beauty, too brief
after the painful morph to butterfly
Can you see me?
thru the sleight-of-hand, fan dance
flickering glimpses here, there
but never the whole picture
Can you see me?
behind the moth-eaten curtain
constructing ephemeral images
to camouflage my truth
Can you see me, now?
between the unstable fault lines 
broken under a burden of pretense
revealing the un-revised version of my-self