Glass, preferable brown and broken into shards. Green is also acceptable, but not clear.
Yarn, dyed black, red, brown or white.
Roots, tangled and dried.
Red Wine in a Tabasco bottle.
Clay, dirt, but no sand. Pebbles but no rocks. Stones of white, or gray, but not tan.
Tears in glass jars, as many as you can fill.
Oil of olives من جدتك from last season.
Sinews, no bone.
Knotted shoelaces.
Jax, metal not plastic.
Aluminum bottle caps.
Ashes.
Wakefulness and ache, grief borne of desire unmuted and lasting benevolence.
