a glass bowl filled
with seafoam-green
colored sand.
i ingather grains
to its center
with the bottom of
an incense stick.
a cross is drawn.
then i place it till perfectly
*****, light the tip and
wave.
its crown smokes upward.
when its meditation is
surrounded by fallen ash,
i remove the remainder
of the incense stick from the
center.
Working its ash
into the grains of sand with
a spiraling motion.