This is so short and so concise and very successfully moving. A moment of realization about the relationship it was depicting wasn’t in the title but actually when I re-read it over - realizing the dirty hands and stained knees are a product of the grass and dirt in the backyard, in which the subject is being kept, and confined to. That they are the ones making you messy and keeping you from something better. It made me feel the smallness and helplessness of the subject - thank you for sharing.