I’m twisted up like forgotten jewelry that has become each other’s best friend

Untangling while frustrated will have me give up and try later again 

I need a different approach 

I’ll think I’m close to unraveling 

Then another string causes for a different stroke 

The knotting of jewelry is intricate , delicate 

One wrong move could be the end of it 

The time I spend on this i...

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(not) painting a Carr’s water-biscuit box

George looked at me, in an all-knowing way, and said
“paint what you see”
as he handed me a Carr’s water-biscuit box

it’s blue, I thought, and boring,
but I took it away and set it on a table
in luke-warm autumn sunlight

after a while, I had a rough oil pastel sketch
that I thought was quite accomplished
I had caught the slight sheen from th...

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