Your ink

your ink finds me in the quiet hour
a midnight tide beneath my skin
it gathers in the well of my pen
like breath returning

I lower nib to page
you are the steady current
where I am empty you arrive
fill the hollow without a sound
spilling dark into every waiting vein

what I thought was absence
opens like a door
the page drinks
the silence answers
and somewhere between
your tide and my heartbeat
something unnamed 
learns to live in ink

20 thoughts on “Your ink

  1. Wow! So loved this, Jennifer!! I always love your visualization of what you write about so that we have images in our minds!!!

    Especially, loved your ending lines!!! Mmmmm!!!

    the page drinks
    the silence answers
    and somewhere between
    your tide and my heartbeat
    something unnamed 
    learns to live in ink

    Chuck 🙂 xoxo

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