Calisthenic, Week 7

Exercise: Building language with synecdoche

The arm of the papier-mâché doll, the scented glue, the headline print, the ink sticking to the whitewashed kitchen floor, the button eyes, the strings of newspaper clipping hair, the dried glue on the hands palm, the stained apron, the wet mud under the fingernails, the molding hands.

Papier-mâché
You pinched the end of its body, the arm an extension to the bite of glue without a scent, blurring the headline print: New York Pizzeria, The Bees Knees. The ink smears the white tiled floor as your creation stares blankly through baby blue buttoned eyes. The precision of snipping through layer after layer of paper hair as the mud dries through each palm, wiping the dried clay over your apron. The mud plasters in between fingers as the creators, the hands mold until nothing remains.