Thrown

John G. Young

only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.

Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions

Man with Red Pot

painter hurls pigment

onto canvas,

communes with colors.

potter emerges,

throws red pot.

his wheel whirls

spins galaxies,

stars, planets,

black holes--

thrusts us

from primal soup

with ‘scriptions

tossed in a bottle

too wet to read