Unlocking the Keys

An old manual typewriter
sits on a hill of dust.

Is that hunched ghost
your wordless self?

Does that self
with its thick fingers
still hammer out a silence,
upon a borderless page,

one that you now interpret,
adding thin strips of madness
on a skin of light?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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