Writer's Blocks
Writer's Block #3
Stinkbug on my keyboard.
My fingers hover
Carefully—
Glad it's not a spider.
Writer's Block #8
I have something I would like to write
So I take out my well-worn journal.
Ten pens sit on my desk.
Before I start, I test them.
Scribbled swirls on scrap paper.
Four have ink that's all dried up.
Three won't click—lost springs?
Two are leaking messes.
Finally finding one that works,
I pinch it with my fingers and hover
Over the open journal's empty page.
But now I've forgotten what it was
I want to write.
Writer's Block #10
I don't worry anymore
About using pencil or pen
To write on blank paper.
No, I don't fear pencils,
Or paper at all.
Now my anxiety comes
From typing pixels
Onto blank white screens.