Take skin

fold, rub and hold it.

Plaiting across and down

the spine, the legs.

Left to right.

Tighten the plait occasionally, if needed.

Bring all out into an open space, trees,

sound of a creek,

dawn birds.
Pull skin tight again

and oiling with dubbin or equivalent

lengthen the plait by introducing new elements

teeth scored along the surface

hair wrapped around fingers.

Stretch the plait until a circular arrangement of skin/leather

strands take shape.

Your whip is formed around the idea of a body.
In out/back places make long wide stories accumulate breath and reason

tyre tracks, tea breaks, heat, heat.

Into your whip build silence

fingers on clavicular space, open eyes to whip.
Hang whip where it will appear as natural.

Touch keeps your whip supple

passing sweat from your hands onto the surface

keep ready the possibility of whip return as you flick and crack beaten path of whip.

Between and lying beside us, hanging down to remind.

Whip is whip.

Your whip should soon be ready, your plait tight yet flexible.

The tone of it better with age and use.

Take care of your whip, use it sparingly.

Allow the aesthetics of whip to play out, cut on cut.

The immediate character of your whip may be seen and with use: change and bend.