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enjoy this writing from Matthew Guzman in the cc&d free 2012 PDF file chapbook: Interstice (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2012 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Interstice

Grace’s Bowl

Matthew Guzman

Earthen, that coarse
wheel turned fragility.
He broke two just this week.
The faded brown turned tan,
a minute precipice forming
along the ridge.

This bowl sat patiently
waiting for years,
in dusty boxes, disturbed a half-
dozen times, moving as she moved,
transient through attic spaces.
The cracking from non-use
and neglect,
paper-thin scars,
like his bourbon breath
and foreign lipstick perfumes,
almost invisible.

Ashley tells me
how Grace kept the dishes for her,
the remnants of what
didn’t shatter along the way.

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