The Pen
“a pen already writing”
—Ted Hughes, “The Blackbird,”
Birthday Letters
Your Scheaffer pen—
Streamlined, scribbling, sleek
Writing with its demon’s schlep—
Looping on your elm tree desk
Then already writing wary things—
Writing things right away
The yawning presence writing—
Waiting for something to speak
And then the pen shuts up—
Too much has already been said
A woman in a bottleneck—
Singing like a blackbird
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