Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The World Is In Pencil

 This poem is on my mind tonight; I'm not sure why. It offers a subtle comfort though--the thought that all this, the world, is a loving work-in-progress, something about it always being erased and re-worked.

The World Is in Pencil

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—not pen. It’s got

that same silken 
dust about it, doesn’t it, 

that same sense of 
having been roughed 

onto paper even  
as it was planned. 

It had to be a labor
of love. It must’ve

taken its author some
time, some shove. 

I’ll bet it felt good
in the hand—the o

of the ocean, and
the and and the and 

of the land. 

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