I feel the first slippery silken drops of poetry rise to spill from the pen-tip: How to catch them perfectly, in which spine-stitched notebook, creamy satin pages yet unsullied? The torrent presses, escapes, warm, wet ink spills, runs through fingers grasping, visions glitter in soft jewel colors a message thumps in tick tock staccato, pulse racing now thickening warm verse slipping onto the damp page, elastic slick with portent, dry soon as the moment surely fades