{"id":22741,"date":"2021-04-27T00:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T04:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=22741"},"modified":"2021-04-27T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T04:54:23","slug":"napowrimo-day-twenty-six-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=22741","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late but it’s still Day Twenty-six on the left coast. Mom and I went out today – to the art supply store and to an office supply store. `I got the few things I “needed” but there might have been more want going on than actual need. And we came home exhausted from the novelty of being out. It’s not the first time we’ve been out but it’s the first we felt no need to rush in and out I guess. We shopped.<\/p>\n

In a moment of sheer
\nI’m not even sure what
\ndesperation? need?
\nWhatever. I bought
\na box of pencils.
\nLimited edition,
\nhigh end, legendary
\npencils. A dozen of them.
\nAnd three tiny notebooks.
\nThe kind that just fit in
\nmy current pockets.
\nI don’t carry pencils there
\nbut a fountain pen. Or two.
\nAnd with these things I try
\nto capture the words that
\nflit past my brain.
\nBut the pencils – those were
\njust a want. I plopped them
\non the counter with the packet
\nof waiting notebooks, heavy
\nwith anticipation.
\nOver time pencils will shorten
\nthe erasers rounding
\nthe pages fuzzing and curling
\nbut today we are all shining
\nand ready for the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yes I came home with a box of the March 2021 Limited Edition BlackWings, the tribute to Woodie Guthrie. Take that you right wing wackadoodles – I’m a folk-singing-lefty.<\/p>\n

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Anticipation
\nWords stored inside a pencil.
\nwaiting to escape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes weird things happen when juggling or pulling things out of one’s pocket etc:<\/p>\n

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