The wick on her candle
Tumbles on syllables
'til finally she growls.
She stares for a couplet,
sublime and serene,
Begs of the wax
to show her a scene.
Where lithe gods of words
come out to play,
And sprinkle out stardust
of black lead in sprays,
Upon her white journal,
the lines empty now.
She's humbled by flame
and brittle from drought.