“A snake in the grass” exhibition at Popps Emporium (Detroit, MI) with ceramics by artist, Virginia Rose Torrence, October, 2022.

“Discreet is to be intentionally unobtrusive,
careful
in one’s speech or actions

Seen, or unseen
A snake
lay bare, the boneless body
to tie knot
in the rope, shed off with
The skin, an image

Can both stand alone or
In conversation with others.

Disparate figures on pot or panel, A dance
between friends with Discrete,
individually separate and distinct, image

Snake, or snake-less
”The Grass divides as with a Comb-“
an image becomes another, anew”