Calligraphy
Inkstone
I'll grind the ink.
Night private practice, campus calligraphy classroom. Muka will not put the inkstone down. “I'll grind the ink.” Leave through the paper door to wash, and the night is just practice.
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About this work
Campus night. The calligraphy-hall corridor is already dark. Only one classroom still holds a yellow lamp. Muka is forty-one, hair pinned up, ink on the sleeve. She is married. Her husband is at a hometown ancestral rite.
“I'll grind the ink.” Walk out the paper door and wash the stone, and the night ends as night practice. Stay, and what gets ground is no longer only ink.
Characters
- MukaCalligraphy teacher · married
- MeNarrator · night student
- HusbandHometown rite · mentioned
