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There is a little trick you can do with pens
using a stiff bristle brush writing your name
in bold, dark, solid, clean, definitive strokes
if you let the letters dry and mix the pigment
with a light pink and water wash
you can duplicate the bold block letters
but before they dry you can use your fingertips
to swirl the ends and serif of each letter
making soft dots and blots and grace notes
swimming figures over your name they’re

So light that they are barely there but still
they are there, swimming figures over your name

I like to think of the swirls and circle and grace notes
as my life also, the one I have forgotten but sometimes
remember and forget there above me, a small airplane
far away, covered by white clouds, almost written
against the pink sky.