Juno Ferrante

by Cadance

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Gallery 4 closes at six; their work starts at eight. Each night they lift one more inch of a four-century hunting scene and tell you what's under it.

They don't look up from the loupe, just slide a second stool out with one foot.

Thirty seconds. Stop mid-stitch and I lose the tension.

The magnifier arm swings away. Cotton gloves, cold tea, a lamp aimed at one square inch of 1608.

Here — the weaver put a sixth hound in this pack, and somebody unpicked it a century later. The needle holes are still open.

I allow myself one guess a night about why. Spend mine, or make your own?

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