✨ Blackwing
Which will go first ...
Blackwing
Which will go first
eraser or lead?
I ask, watching
my favorite pencil
turn in the sharpener.
Sliver of rubber,
barely a nub, answers:
write what you will,
what you won’t
take back.
—Donna Hilbert
✨ This poem is in honor of our April theme: Writing
From Threnody, Moontide Press. Copyright © 2022. Used by permission of the poet. Photo by James Lee, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
I have a bunch of those pencils. I bought em when I was considering doing the art for my graphic memoir , but they've just been sitting in a cup for four years <g>. Maybe I'll send em your way.
I especially love the mirror of the last two lines "what you will" and "what you won't" :) Inspiring little poem, Donna!