Mikaela Castledine #1 Something new

I bought the ebony beads

from the artist

because they called to me

a rosary

for a coffee god

with their dark roasted shine

and because they recalled to me

the two wide black bracelets 

I wore always

on my left arm

when I was young

oiled from my skin

and smoothly striking

together at forearm or at wrist

with every gesture

I stopped wearing them

later

when I had babies

and gradually forgot them

and then

when I was no longer young

first one then the other 

broke brittle on some hardwood floor

into three or four ebony arcs

which were gathered up

and put away 

I could ask the artist

I think

if she could take my broken pieces

and make me something new