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CRAFT FAIR
Here:
glass dragons on strings
eggs in ancient patterns like things on the walls of caves
bracelets of beads, leather and bone
golden bowls like Midas-touched baths
castles and apples on boxes and stools
amphibians with golden crowns and sapphire eyes
silken scarves twisting blue as the sea
You have come to this hall
as you suppose, to purchase beauty:
take it home in a paper bag
to put in a cupboard or hang on a wall.
But things here shift and hatch and grow,
peck out of their crackled wax-dyed shells.
Some things will never belong
Look: