Published: 2022-07-11
A stream of consciousness reflection on the circumstances meeting a special person in my life follows.
Helpful Holding hands Cutting tomatoes next to a hot coil and a faucet running water, washing hands, bright memories in dim places blue LCD illumination and warm salt lamps who brought us here did we or did she? cropped white hair over a sheet of soft metal rough hands and pine resin wood chips and the sound of a metal file scraping, scraping, scraping, over paper and oil and glue and solvent The image, balanced: the gender between iron and silk, the chemistry between cherry-wood and brass