There is a silent mercy in the border,6Please respect copyright.PENANAb01uNTdzAJ
The uncharted country at the paper's edge,6Please respect copyright.PENANA9eAu9JQR1Q
Holding the line against a looming muddle,6Please respect copyright.PENANAmGyAEtldYn
A mute, protective pledge.
It is the breath before the word is spoken,6Please respect copyright.PENANAq5qrDSKx47
The stillness where the jumbled thoughts can rest,6Please respect copyright.PENANAnskc18Lepf
The buffer for the ink that bleeds too deeply,6Please respect copyright.PENANAIaLBuHyqxK
The sigh within the reader’s chest.
We cram the center with our loud ambition,6Please respect copyright.PENANApn4MMidOsk
We spill our heavy ink across the page,6Please respect copyright.PENANAWjlY4yjGI1
Forgetting that the frame defines the picture,6Please respect copyright.PENANASofVTrrDBh
And quiescence gives a voice to the stage.
But we are fiercely jealous of our secrets,6Please respect copyright.PENANAtAex3veNig
Cramping the edges with the things we hide,6Please respect copyright.PENANA0WheXc2HgS
Too terrified to stain the immaculate center6Please respect copyright.PENANAg1MjSn1tfY
With the frenzied scratch of what’s inside.
We keep the scribble small, outside the margins,6Please respect copyright.PENANAG2jsbr3KO5
Fearing the sight of thoughts so tangled up,6Please respect copyright.PENANAGKAZqRtL8P
As if a messy page might prove us broken,6Please respect copyright.PENANAwvaGI9wWLF
Spilling the pigment from a fractured cup.
Yet reliability is often whispered in the columns,6Please respect copyright.PENANAHKSBAiZx95
In penciled notes where stray ideas roam;6Please respect copyright.PENANAyDo1ZP2WHg
It’s in the margins that we find the space6Please respect copyright.PENANA53eFQXrH0a
To turn a crowded house into a home.6Please respect copyright.PENANAu7hVR0PLPQ
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