HER WISH

In this tourist area of the Old City she sits,
through her long hours upon its sidewalk,
crafting and selling her voodoo dolls:

she crafts their bodies after her body,
their faces after her face, and infuses her
spirit into each of the dolls that she creates;

and she labours hard to sell her dolls as if
to cast her spirit more far and wide,
around the world, making her be more than
her self — as if she wished to be her art.