Green Peas at Stake

His Handwriting (Dew drop 19)

His Handwriting

Not on tablets
or in charcoal,
but with ink on paper,
unleashed I thought
his attention to detail
through patchiness.
In the way his letters curved
faithful to high loops
on top of the lines
like hands clapping and
the deep dark ink
-a symbol of strength-
could be hooking for
someone to hold,
but then, I got
the whole thing wrong,
not noticing the distribution
of empty spaces or the
flair of smudges and streaks.
Maybe because I am
a speed reader, and I
never could read in
between the lines.