Welder's Weld

The Welder's Weld

by Sonia Balcer 8/21/82

Wherefore must I wear a mask when
I hold in my hand, the pen
wherewith I write poetry with fire?

How I long to discover the secrets that are hidden
in the theatre before me;
to behold the movement of tiny, metal
particles, as they waltz and interlock
in a world within a world;
as they pirouette between the boundaries set
by the fire which frees them to move.

Oh, Lord in heaven! Why are not human eyes made
to see this wonder directly?
Must I always hold this dark glass before me?

Hark! He causes my heart, to see the mystery!
The metals are assaulted, by electric energy,
carried by heaving, heavy wires. In a molten flash,
I see the crystals breaking, and sighing;
the silent order of the solid surface, giving way
to rushing, hotly-radiant tides
that crash together like waves at a beach.

It swirls before me, an intricate dance
which I cannot see, but yet feel inside.

I delight to caress the molten piece
in my heart.
It is inside of me, and I am inside of it.
I slowly feel over and underneath
the hot liquid surfaces.
I move into its every contour, and through
the whole of it.

Bodies of metal, which once were separate;
the boundaries are fading.
It swirls and whirlpools within me-
It is all blurred now, caught
Into a quickly-freezing body of what once
was separate, but now is together,

a single piece.

A tire-d snail

A tired snail 

This snail used to be a car's right hand until the car got in and accident and the tire went to the curb!

The Pinkish Tool Box

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful Princess and she fell in love with a handsome Prince from a land far, far away.  He told her all about his charming Kingdom where Syrup runs from taps in trees and where there are magical mushrooms growing in pastures.   She couldn't wait to follow her love across the ocean where they became married and she bore him 3 beautiful daughters.  She took care of the children and the castle while he was out protecting his country and they lived happily ever after.
NO THEY DIDN'T!! Well, they could have but lo and behold, the evil Queen was watching from afar and planning her plot!!  She criticized  the Princess in front of the whole kingdom and her husband, the grumpy, old King would tell lies to the Prince.  She took her three daughters and fled from the castle into the woods where she found a lovely house in which she raised her kids on her own without any help form the Royal Outlaws.  They lived a happy but meager live and her daughters grew older and even more graceful.  One day, they were out in the woods looking for Max their noble steed, when they found a mystical pinkish tool box with this engraving in golden letters:

Fix the things you can fix,
Pray for the ones you can't 
And try once more the next day!

They ran home to give their found treasure to their Mom, who began immediately to repair and restore all kinds of things in their house.  She was so smitten by her new found powers that she started to show her daughters and eventually girl-friends and even strange women in the kingdom how to fix like man but with a woman's timing!!! .

And NOW they lived happily ever after!!!