The figure is a redrawing of Michelangelo's Mourning Woman.

My text is a response to William Kentridge's Weigh All Tears.

Original poem by Martha Little:

Wear my tears

do not weigh them.

They are not to be measured or sold.

Strange pearls of my grief;

They roll beneath the waves of my shattering breath--

waking a grit-worn harvest

stung again and again

by those lusty comforters--Job's jackals

barking their hollow truth.