Woodcut

1. Advice
Without a vice, the perfect cut slips the saw's grasp, the drill equivocates.
Here's a scar ingrained – a rough track for the fallen angle.
2. Measure
Millimetres crawl on jointless legs away from any mark.
They have no nest. They feed on raw anxiety and slivers of dead time.
3. Glue is a matter of hope.
You sweat out the drying and feel nervously for play. At school they taught us dovetailing. Nothing stuck.
4. Filler is redemption tubed.
It lies for you between intent and action, mind and (slipping) world.
5. Spirit Level
It all rests squarely on this: a trapped bubble: a little zero dividing the equals.
6. Offcuts
Among the accidental objects shaved and stripped from shelving – a blond ringlet of dust, curled from the bit, cutting implausible form.