Cabinet Maker by Jacob Lawrence Fingers skilled, fingering a try-square to measure a clean board edge. Clawhammer, common nail put aside, the cabinetmaker concentrates, his eye trained to make a lidded chest of polished woods: birch, cherry, oak, the slotted screwdriver prepared to turn a slotted wood screw. Calm as wood the maker, wise to the old ways of C-clamp, cabinet hinge, chest handle. Time has honed, generations burnished his high craft, his ken of wood, the way he cuts straight and true. In his turn, death will cut him down. The work endures. Priscilla Long Priscilla Long is a writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. She has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and teaches writing.
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FLYNN DONOVAN
4/2/2022 04:15:40 pm
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