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29 Aug22

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“Solace”,
“For Example”
and
“Italics”
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Solace

Pencils know what I mean
and that to let it go
 
unsaid would harm me
so we begin setting down
 
again in good order
all the pressing questions,
 
those I ask over and over
whether or because
 
an answer won’t be found
in any ready grammar
 
or at all, only the solace
of having said so. Mention
 
spares us, no call to insert
from what? for what?
 
though the pencil allows it
like an erasable knife
 

Rosemary Norman

in collection Solace, 2022, Shoestring Press,
ISBN 978-1-915553-07-2