Meditation T-Shirt

24"x36" acrylic painting. ekphrastic poem written by poet Maurine Killough: this is the way life is with its boxes and swirls appearing as snares, suction cups and mazes they are everywhere you step into them everyday get boxed in circle around and around then trip into a dead end before you see clearly, after so many lifetimes that the boxes are windows the swirls are clouds to carry you away the rubik’s cubes are your own lethal thoughts so i lie down to not think i am awake but i do not participate i recline quietly as ancient labyrinths order my hair secret mazes mark my body sacred swirls coil my mind cyclones siphon my drops i shut my drain pipes to all that is going on like music in the background and fall i...