The Joins
By Chana Bloch
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending precious pottery with gold.
What's between us
seems flexible as the webbing
between forefinger and thumb.
Seems flexible but isn’t;
what's between us
is made of clay
like any cup on the shelf.
It shatters easily. Repair
becomes the task.
We glue the wounded edges
with tentative fingers.
Scar tissue is visible history
and the cup is precious to us
because
we saved it.
In the art of kintsugi
a potter repairing a broken cup
would sprinkle the resin
with powdered gold.
Sometimes the joins
are so exquisite
they say the potter
may have broken the cup
just so he could mend it.
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