Two Poems
Don Paterson, 10 July 2025
Point to plane. Point to line.Behold the literal abstraction.Draw the quill from her left wing: I’m after some capillary action.
Swan for broad and crow for fine.Eagle, no. For lutes. For mine? An e-pen on an e-ink pad much like my father’s slate on slate.
The first script wasn’t law or lore or poem or prayer, but plain receipt for what was placed in...