The Winter Vault - Anne Michaels
Also by Anne Michaels
FICTION
Fugitive Pieces
POETRY
Skin Divers
Miner's Pond
The Weight of Oranges
for R and E
Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone. In any case, forty thousand years ago, we left painted handprints on the cave walls of Lascaux, Ardennes, Chauvet.
The black pigment used to paint the animals at Lascaux was made of manganese dioxide and ground quartz; and almost half the mixture was calcium phosphat ...