The Clay Workshop

The bespeckled magician in suspenders educates his apprentices
around a workshop table with clay and cameras and computers.
The eye plays games with the mind. Faces turn inside out.
Creatures run in circles. Figures float in air.
Clay forms turn inches on a stage.
Their molded bodies formed with cuts and pastes.
Snapped frames in successive time.
Small dramas set to music for short movies.
A ballerina turns like a top.
A goalie misses the shot.
A juggler loses his head.
A gymnast does a somersault.
A break dancer spins and claps his legs.
A couple waltz a stage and kiss to part.
The movies stop and start.
The children come and go.
The magician starts and stops.
The workshops continue to find
figures formed for the mind,
who come and go into frame,
with games for the eye to play.
All in good time.