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Small painting
Small painting
After months
the hand stalls
unready for a brush
for such a small painting,
a napthol red, mars yellow,
burnt umber plane
the eyes shut
masked to the coated
surface—surface
the manganese face
under
the laminate of
wait and touch, the nuisance,
loyalty to
the habit of color,
stacking slats of hue
into thing, cooking
a bath of thickened
red, slicked cobalt,
gray titanium rose gray, gray arcs and bars across, down, up
avoiding corners
for now, seeing how
gray meets
another gray and
yellow like snail streaks
on bricks.
trust leaks
down the wrist
pulling the glaze
onto skin, real skin
of the hand
and nerve
the temper of the
tonal shift diminishes
into the weave.