La Justicia / Justice

Mara Lea Brown

Watercolor on paper

14 x 24 inches

Justice wears

Blue missed-trees

Certain of scene

Melanin mystery

Civil-eye’s nations of

Sun chemistry

Prism’s decree

Arbiter, mediator, referee of

Peace or disease?

Black, brown, red, yellow, white

Blossom infinite numberless

Tactful insight

Parable’s season day

Earth mirrors heaven’s way

Right fist high five carbon six

To eleven

Left balances bowl’s reverence

Solar mind knows wisdom’s talents

Lesson?

Sensory compensatory

Pays armed force discourse

Listen

Conceal sword & shield

Wheel the chariot you ride

A white tennis shoe protrudes

Beneath the dress of justice

On the run for

Or from whose dictum of

Game, gain, fame, pain, smile?

Mediate soul’s source

Intuitive guide defends the course

Perfect?

Gentile judgment might be worth it

Go easy

Mind abilities

Justice is at hand

Come as a child

Do the best you can.

Poem by Tureeda Mikell, Story Medicine Woman