Unskilled

I am unskilled at the small labors of fingers and hands, baffled by the miasma of angles , planes and wooden geometry. The mind perceives the perfect form but I cannot change image into concrete reality. Nails bend obtuse, knots do not catch and slip correctly. Prisms of nerve networks retract, distort. I am unskilled at the flow of ordinary words: a novice at those baffling shallow conversations.

Douglas Bowman

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I am at the small labors of fingers and hands,
baffled by the miasma of angles , planes and wooden .
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