a sense of material in small objects - specimen and collect - set about like dancing - Diebenkorn called it "essential thereness" - simply there to be considered acknowledged - they occupy space in our home

there in our heads and hearts - we move through the kitchen in afternoon winter light - voices of nervous teenagers in the living room - what pieces will be there to hold them as they begin the drift of adulthood

coming into themselves, un-anchoring from a sandy bottom with no real purchase - what object holds a memory to comfort them - texture becoming scent, reflection flavor - pulling their gaze around again to the warm kitchen

the words seeing surfaces as light lands, reflects, leaving striped table cloth, coffee cup, reading glasses, scissor, sketchbook wire binding, blue bowl, black placemat, orange skin and a jar of coffee beans