Thursday, March 17, 2016

#71 Kevin Brophy 'Pencil Grip'

At first she holds it correctly.
Who knows why.

Her forehead comes down
to the pencil’s end
till she’s pushing it around
with her forebrain.
Easy to let the end slip
into one nostril
for a more delicate manoeuvre.

Her hand shifts to hold it
like a digging stick,
a wand, a baton,
it can be anything
and almost is
as the sentence emerges
from her tiny storm

its words scorched across the paper
as if finally scratched out with the tip
of a lightning bolt.


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