Simulacrum
Portuguese rose marble
14" x 6" x 5"
1999

What lies beneath the cloak?

Or is the mantle best left unfurled
--in protection, sheathed by imagination--
an image of hope,
refuge in a role?

Appearance or Reality,
Does the question matter?
What is revealed
is the Spiral,
inside and out,
the magic of Infinity,
leading perhaps nowhere,
leading perhaps everywhere?