- Longhand
One part only of me moving.
The rest of me keeping shtum.
- Equipment
My fingers taper to a point.
The nib shows willing.
- Method
Not one bit like keyboard keys
with their busy, busy, busy.
- Technology
One shimmy of a sudden line
suddenly strikes through it all.
- Add-ons
The lack of a word-count facility,
of the feint of a change of font.
- Archive
Each new poem written off the back of the previous one.
- Soundscape A
Small scratchings like a bird in a thicket. Robin, possibly.
- Soundscape B
My arm across the paper, its slight taffeta shift.
- Proposition
That ink warmed by my body moves the freer for it.
- Sinister
While my right hand is playing with these words,
what do you suppose my left is doing?
This Issue
October 8, 2020
Pamela Karlan
Our Most Vulnerable Election
Jed Perl
The Cults of Wagner
James Gleick
Simulating Democracy
This Issue
October 8, 2020
Pamela Karlan
Our Most Vulnerable Election
Jed Perl
The Cults of Wagner
James Gleick
Simulating Democracy
