Monique Van Nieuwland Artworks: Rift and Purple Shawl

Monique Van Nieuwland Rift and Purple Shawl

 Artist: Monique Van Nieuwland 

Artworks: Rift and Purple Shawl

Poet: Susan Hampton
Title: The Goddess of Hinges Copyright 2022.

Poem:

" The Goddess of Hinges

The morning sky solders itself to the landscape leadenly also I tread towards a rift very slight in the cumulous –  and timorous in my movements I know I’ve already crossed a threshold to a place without visible gates a sort of atrium where I notice portholes and passages, side-alleys where hooded figures are speaking wayside shrines where finally you may leave behind your photos and trinkets, your offerings to such gods as may be and before the weather turns wet the Goddess of Hinges appears— wraps me in a purple shawl, turns me back and says, ‘Not yet.’ "