ART POETRY
By Octavio Romano 9.5.01

It is uplifting
It is depressing
It is tenderness
It is savage
It is arrogance
It is humility
It is love
It is hate
It is safety
It is danger
It is birth
It is death
It is the barrio
It is the universe
It is one artist
It is every artist
It is the struggle
It is the victory
It is the elders
It is the fetus
It is the egg
It is the sperm
It is the music
It is the silence
It is the stillness
It is the dance
It is the warmth of pressing bodies
It is the cold of nights alone
It is love
It is tears
IT IS ART
IT IS THE WOMAN BY THE STREAM