
Hinemoana Baker — if i had to sing
Poetry Unbound
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The Art Gallery, a Poem to a Particular Gallery
Hinnamwana Baker is suggesting with music and flowers, thresholds to cross through through an invitation. The poem finishes almost like a prayer. Hold me up now as I do you, sing and steady me under your strong, sure feet. Sometimes I think it's the art gallery. A gallery is a place where we as human beings display what it is that we create. And so I've spent a lot of time thinking about this line, language is a flute, a lily, a chair overbalancing,. How gorgeous.
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