Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

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[Late morning of February 13 (day 258)]
[Market on Main Street]

I may go see Klavec, again. Ask if he has anything I can look at, see if there are any shapes that want to be made into something. I can tan the leather myself, but it's never been work I like.

There's not much trade for masks, here and now; most of it these last weeks has been trinkets, pendants or hairpins, twists of skin or wood beaded and stitched and made to a brightness that promises spring, summer, the flare and splash of colour to come. People want what they can't have, want to hold the cool glaze of winter and the iced violets of its shadows when the air beats hot and wet in summer, and the burst of seeds splitting and spitting young green when the sight and ground crackles with autumn ashes. So my masks will wait for someone who wants to show themselves, even only to themselves.

I don't really mind; coming out is a way to sit and watch people go by. And customers will come, soon or late.

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Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

[sapphira-ststep.livejournal.com]

[Late morning of February 13 (day 258)]
[Market on Main Street]

I may go see Klavec, again. Ask if he has anything I can look at, see if there are any shapes that want to be made into something. I can tan the leather myself, but it's never been work I like.

There's not much trade for masks, here and now; most of it these last weeks has been trinkets, pendants or hairpins, twists of skin or wood beaded and stitched and made to a brightness that promises spring, summer, the flare and splash of colour to come. People want what they can't have, want to hold the cool glaze of winter and the iced violets of its shadows when the air beats hot and wet in summer, and the burst of seeds splitting and spitting young green when the sight and ground crackles with autumn ashes. So my masks will wait for someone who wants to show themselves, even only to themselves.

I don't really mind; coming out is a way to sit and watch people go by. And customers will come, soon or late.

[Open]
[Closed]