You will write a book one day
He sincerely looked into my eyes
“You will write a book one day”
and then I hear
all the unspoken words
You will publish a book
It will be wonderful
I am proud of you
You are brilliant and creative
I love you
Love letters
Love letters
in a glass jar on my desk
All 26
Twenty-six typewriter hammers
in a jar on my desk
Love letters
Each letter of the alphabet
I wanted to have them
I like strange curiosities like that
Pieces of the printer world
Tools of the writer
I watched as he methodically took apart
the old broken electric typewriter
Neither of us realizing the amount of work with this task
2600 parts in an old electric typewriter
dozens of tiny springs
We never knew
He wasn’t deterred
A box filled with random parts removed
Respect for those who repaired these miracles of technology
now obsolete
And he presented me with my typewriter hammers
And I have my love letters in a jar on my desk
And another with the punctuation to go with it
Poetry and Tattoos
Poetry and Tattoos
They are so similar
Ways we humans capture a memory
A person
An emotion
A moment
A love
We write them down
We brand them on our bodies
Things of our mind, heart, and soul
We sometimes regret their permanence after we imprint them with ink
Whether words on paper or pictures on flesh
But the memory, love, person, emotion, is so strong
We couldn’t let it go
So we put it out there for the world to see