Twenty canvasses of your own.
Each nail is a canvas.
Even two year olds daub
them with a tiny brush.
On every high street two or three
businesses compete cuticles.
No airheads chewing gum,
buffing nails and passing calls.
Operating theatre masks,
nail drying machines by their side.
French or gel.
Indulged luxury in austerity.
At home sisters bond and learn
techniques of togetherness.
If you do mine, I’ll do yours.
Choose colour or tattoo.
Delicacy of touch and focus.
Mindfulness colouring book.
Pampered by laughter
and forgetting.
© 2017, Paul Brookes
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