Canada Dreams

              Scribe
                      

        Titled I write,
             As verb and noun entwined,
        Slanting into the rationalizing gales

             Of hurtful prior words:
        Said, written, thought and hinted at;
           Writer, WRITE!
        Reed scratching paper,
             Drying ink forgotten
                As the stylus moves on
        Against the empirical word-winds
             Of Hisstory.
        Scribe, SCRIBE!
        The vellum tears and still
           A nib of weeping ebony
        Trails downward,
           While all this uphill
           Italic asymmetry
        Also curves my spine.
  

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