ICAD 2023, day 5: egg

egg

i intend today to throw
most of an egg on a potter’s wheel
and then sculpt a hummingbird

when the almost-egg is leather hard
I intend to cut its base at a bias
to give it a jaunty axial tilt
then perch the hummingbird
at its apex
absurdly out of scale
with the huge egg
it is valiantly attempting
to incubate

it may show how heroic
motherhood is
or how ridiculous
life is

the egg may have cutouts
to give it a windowed interior
or embossing
to give it a muralesque exterior

it is impossible to say yet
sometimes we just have to see
what happens
when it hatches