Friday, 9 October 2009

Go Slow



This is my mother's red Morroco leather manicure set.


Here are the contents, most of them a complete mystery to me
but presumably not to her.
It sat on a proper dressing table.
And she sat in front of it,
properly.




Here is the sort of table that would do it justice and
there is the sort of person I might have been,
glimpsed in the mirror adjusting my earrings.


This is the contemplative pose that I might have struck while
toying with an emery board,


or applying make up.




There's that deeply self-absorbed gaze again,
the one that says,
'There's really no hurry'.


'Admire your pearls.'


'Brush your hair - 100 strokes each night.'


'Powder your face.'


'Put on your hat.'

'The world can wait.'

1 comment:

  1. "The world can wait"...yes!!!!

    Love all the images:)

    Hope you have a good weekend, Lucille!

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