after painfully separating the colors in intricate patterns she allows herself the full glimpse of her daily labors. and without hesitation brushes the dry earth, along with her work.
her long fingers unfurling, the long and brittle parts breaking into sand.
7 November 2018
literary exercise "hands" ; remembered natgeo clips, one from a monk in ornage robes and another woman from India, creating mandalas from colored sand only to brush it with the earth as soon as they finish.
**** it, what's wrong why wont asterisks for italics work now?