P3 - Laura Andreson, Beaker

Laura Andreson
American, 1902-1999

Beaker
1944
Vase
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
1993.49

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Generations
by Lauren McKinnon


Spiraling women sleep,

stacked spines for holding.


Oval echoes no edge—

so I smell basil

hung from kitchen window

hear my grandmother’s gold bands clink

as she reaches in the cupboard

pulls out a beaker

for milk and

lines of women

cupping their palms.



Bring bodies to lips

taste blossoms of red

glaze over tongue

speak muted

ancient

ripples


in clay cracked on hands.

She made women for bowls—

they made bowls from women.

Spirals of take

bent circles in our skin.