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a potter a sponge an x-acto knife a potter’s wheel a wire tool a needle tool a bucket of water a trimming tool and five pounds of white sandless clay

made a globular vase form let it firm up cut it free from the wheel head turned the vase upside down carefully centered and buttressed with a thick clay roll

trimmed away excess clay righted the vase centered and buttressed it again

and then the needle tool made guidelines the x-acto knife sliced the form into segments and the clay segments were baked in a kiln

and the potter took the fired-clay segments and tried several arrangements and arrived at one that felt super-right but needed something

and the search for that something amid already-fired oddments yielded a tiny egg shape and a corpuscular micronest for it to perch on

and the arrangement zinged