Ore & Ink
The polished wooden pen
writes because its roots
are ink and its leaves
silver.
Its scope, as the
canopy umbrella of
the baobab tree, that
stretches wide the Sahara
bronze.
Its thought, the redwood
strength of twisting gnarls
and knotted rings
lodged in Sierra soil
gold.
-M.M.
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