China Dainty

Take this.
Touch porcelain oblong dish
And moss cloth
Where clipped toes pot.

Red yourself.

I pale petit local
Touch star snow that shuffles
golden white down and
sifts to grey under villages
Where my dark family pleasures
spread their soil.

Rules made small
Clip rich hands from food
The poor painted the pearl,
The land, the rivers and home
Countryside sky in boat village
Vast black.

Take this
Bind it
Break bones back
Red yourself.