Poetry Patricia Lockwood The earth turns / On a man’s need for gadgets Clare Grill, Jemima . 2023, oil on paper. 19 × 15". Photo by Brad Farwell. Courtesy of the artist. An Agate a Day Mexico makes them, Turkey, Malawi. They are total revelation. They are like a maze of mind. Paths and paths into themselves and never too Interior. My first was dead black, a Brazilian With mahogany flame — it looks like Ecce Homo, We laughed, Behold the Man . Just as long as we don’t cut Agate Head, I either warned or pleaded. He had arrived In a box with the others, but different, A rust-orange nodule like a little swede lantern. And smiling. It happened this way: we had Fever and for two weeks, could only watch Cutting videos. Agates were glowers. And sometimes stinkers. The earth turns On a man’s need for gadgets: “I’ve ordered Us a ten-inch lapidary wheel.” Finally, after twenty years, a shared hobby! You see sparks inside as it grinds away.…