There is a silent mercy in the border,21Please respect copyright.PENANAsFavAG4Xw7
The uncharted country at the paper's edge,21Please respect copyright.PENANADAAtLNqqwv
Holding the line against a looming muddle,21Please respect copyright.PENANAIDwbzrDsB9
A mute, protective pledge.
It is the breath before the word is spoken,21Please respect copyright.PENANAz7KICXeImt
The stillness where the jumbled thoughts can rest,21Please respect copyright.PENANAeVOF4lwPIX
The buffer for the ink that bleeds too deeply,21Please respect copyright.PENANAfOMWdexnzz
The sigh within the reader’s chest.
We cram the center with our loud ambition,21Please respect copyright.PENANArqCBt6jpVu
We spill our heavy ink across the page,21Please respect copyright.PENANAMN78Lv7xWJ
Forgetting that the frame defines the picture,21Please respect copyright.PENANA3pgGy85tw8
And quiescence gives a voice to the stage.
But we are fiercely jealous of our secrets,21Please respect copyright.PENANA02SCeehZ8l
Cramping the edges with the things we hide,21Please respect copyright.PENANAgmZZt0oW81
Too terrified to stain the immaculate center21Please respect copyright.PENANADO5Wd7m0A4
With the frenzied scratch of what’s inside.
We keep the scribble small, outside the margins,21Please respect copyright.PENANAiAB3W50MLE
Fearing the sight of thoughts so tangled up,21Please respect copyright.PENANAQLjgAvGp8C
As if a messy page might prove us broken,21Please respect copyright.PENANAE4s1vRosST
Spilling the pigment from a fractured cup.
Yet reliability is often whispered in the columns,21Please respect copyright.PENANAk6IZbxWgxa
In penciled notes where stray ideas roam;21Please respect copyright.PENANAVLU3twb9oP
It’s in the margins that we find the space21Please respect copyright.PENANA3P3CPVqlBB
To turn a crowded house into a home.21Please respect copyright.PENANAaapsmeXQ3n
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