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Held for the brief instant forever
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-24Held for the brief instant forever There should be a relief of it, something you can rub your hands over so a blind man could know; it should be tooled into a purse or leather saddle— but how to capture it? How to make the kitchen clock stop when it never truly does, how to capture the thrumming from the worm stick that makes the nightcrawlers rise, how to trace a new hoof print and make it stay, lines fresh, untrammeled. How can you do it, what dies and stamps can you use, what faith can you find in the leather? How can you capture the steam from the stock tank, a cottontail in mid-hop, the dog yawning, the drumming thunder under a sheet metal roof, the sun spilling over and tilting the morning-glories? What stitches can you use to bind the shapes? What cut of the cowhide, what clasps, what bangles? How can you make sure that this moment does not escape you? How can you hammer it in? ...