one flute in the boy’s collection holds the artists imagination / asked to see it soon as he noticed it / pile of flutes various shapes and sizes / amongst them a flute with thorns / feels among the flutes fingering the thorns carefully / made in several sections / each a different wood / different thorn / fine craftsmanship / in his large hands the position of thorns prevents Fishface from placing his fingers accurately over the finger holes / slimness boys fingers dance with ease jigwise avoid tha thorns / yet being blind necessitates some caution / his gentle voice begins again in that language the artist cannot understand / explains the flute was a present from his father / explains it was his first flute / explains his father made it for him / vaguely ol Fishface understands the flute had been given as a joke / pointed joke / sketched delicately in sepia wash sanguine crayon / thorn flute