Lolita Paiewonsky

 

The Master Played

This is a Poetâge. This work is in its fifth incarnation. It began as a foetal dream bounding into existence through my sleep-consciousness at 2:00 one morning of my first semester at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Conceived from readings on Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson’s inspiration: Harlem Renaissance painter and artist Romare Bearden. Its poem-body developed and sprouted arms and was later submitted as a ‘Reflection Entry’ in hard copy and then presented orally in class. But the piece was not content. It needed ears. To hear itself. So, it was performed to an audience while a classical violinist played a piano to its words and images. But, still, it needed more. It needed eyes. To see itself. So Father Romare’s inspiration spun a collage around it, bringing for all to see, another dimension to its images. It named itself a “poetâge—a poetic assemblage” ... And now, it could not be happier to be a part of a real gallery, a gallery of infinity, a gallery where infinity roams the curves and spaces, where time is relative, tenuous, inciteful, absured, exists and ceases but never ceases. Like the history it tells and shares and shows and spins in its assemblage that, now, has the final appendage, a mouth. Lolita Paiewonsky

 

Lolita Paiewonsky is a poet and writer, Ed.M. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Arts in Education), and second-generation graduate of Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. She has published several small volumes of poetry including the bilingual Lights Aglow/Luces Brillantes; appeared in numerous journals and print media; performed her poetry (often with musical accompaniment) in various venues, from St. Louis, Missouri (family home), to St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, to Cambridge/Boston. Her Tortoiseshell feline, Khari, concurs.

 

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