What Glass Shards Are Called
Named for a process: .
Something about the molecular tructures. Something about atching one become a
y father describes the process one afternoon at the old studio, across the lot
from where a ballet company stores their giant wooden Nutcrackers.
n the studio, he knows where to find each color, his ars lined up and packed with shards
to fill in the concave plaster molds. He tries to teach me how to arrange the colors, shapes.
Wants to share what life is his.
I hink that’s what you’re supposed to do with family.
ou get choked up, otherwise, itchen drains
First it was sloping clay on the potter’s wheel. Now designing, molding, baking, mounting
slabs of on walls, pedestals, iron skeletons. It’s why he dropped out of college, or so he tells me.
Or e told himself. Or someone told him
he wasn’t good enough at anything else.
every summer. Practicality was all.
As soon as he moved out, my father grew
his hair into a long, red ponytail.
He lived in the studio, plaster under his nails,
checked the kilns in the middle of the night, learned how to create
a fusing of shapes into something, if not durable,
able to imagine . A shaking of shards into the spirals and diamonds
and eckled edges of the mold, sun-tipped eyes settling down, holding each other as heat flares.
with , .
We watch their gathering until my hands are full of frit.
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