There is a silent mercy in the border,12Please respect copyright.PENANArPFN0LxDf7
The uncharted country at the paper's edge,12Please respect copyright.PENANAl4rZEvPkDY
Holding the line against a looming muddle,12Please respect copyright.PENANACWacvPyQFr
A mute, protective pledge.
It is the breath before the word is spoken,12Please respect copyright.PENANAx0m5q0Xyu5
The stillness where the jumbled thoughts can rest,12Please respect copyright.PENANAhfksG1p9Yr
The buffer for the ink that bleeds too deeply,12Please respect copyright.PENANA7O8qasACit
The sigh within the reader’s chest.
We cram the center with our loud ambition,12Please respect copyright.PENANA2ygODFTJLs
We spill our heavy ink across the page,12Please respect copyright.PENANA2viGpnQsmK
Forgetting that the frame defines the picture,12Please respect copyright.PENANAj0F32xP9ap
And quiescence gives a voice to the stage.
But we are fiercely jealous of our secrets,12Please respect copyright.PENANApFecEuZTcq
Cramping the edges with the things we hide,12Please respect copyright.PENANAHHBJsQlCMe
Too terrified to stain the immaculate center12Please respect copyright.PENANAF0Uz1o2wm9
With the frenzied scratch of what’s inside.
We keep the scribble small, outside the margins,12Please respect copyright.PENANAJh7qMYfhiA
Fearing the sight of thoughts so tangled up,12Please respect copyright.PENANA2iHpnVKtYH
As if a messy page might prove us broken,12Please respect copyright.PENANA1YTMmyD1u6
Spilling the pigment from a fractured cup.
Yet reliability is often whispered in the columns,12Please respect copyright.PENANAyk9mwwdeDk
In penciled notes where stray ideas roam;12Please respect copyright.PENANADrR1YWvwLR
It’s in the margins that we find the space12Please respect copyright.PENANAM5kF5GSflI
To turn a crowded house into a home.12Please respect copyright.PENANAULCtiBcge2
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