Stained Parchment

a curious endeavor,
writing

novels, memoirs
fictions, fantasies
metaphors, similes

ironies, paradoxes
rhymes, freeverse
tales of romance and adventure

writing

careens from moments of
splendid delirium into spans
of stunned puzzlement

from there cruising
into periods of calm
focused craft

relatively recent practice
for homo sapiens
writing words

two-legged animals
have long been
creatures of language

verbal language
first resided in
shaped breaths of alarm

grunts of sorrow
grumbles of pain
peals of laughter

staccato sounds
metered
by the tongue

long before
taking residence
on the page

longer still before
living arrayed in rows
across glowing screens

a curious endeavor

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