collage – Elizabeth Oakley Weaver

Be brilliant

Upon commitment, the Universe conspires to exist; who are you not to shine…be brilliant!
Marianne Williamson on Nelson Mandala

(Elizabeth used slender magazine strips to create the yogi, light and shadow .)

Close up of a collage in reds.

Though this looks like a single figure from a few feet back, the body is composed of dozens of tiny strips of paper that create its form and light.

Drape
Me in
Crimson rOse petals,

garnets,
coraL,
RuBies
and feed me

dragon’s Blood,

cherries,

straWberries,
plums,

salmon,
meRlot

then make me
glow

flush,
blush,
BlooM
till I’m

Rubeous,
carneLian,
verMilioN
as ScarLet hummingbirds
SOAR from our

Mad
voRacious
heartS.

Thank you to the editor of Absinthe Revival for first publishing this poem.

Magazine collage featuring red.