Sketch on realizing I hadn’t written anything for a long time.

 

Far too long

Since my pen

Scratched a song

Like a hen

Picking seed

From the grass

Feathers gleam

Like old brass

Long since time

That I sat

Spit a rhyme

Like a cat

Hairballed words

Ticking out

No weird curves

Not a doubt

Too long since

My pen primed

Took the hints

Of my mind

Now I scritch

Even scratch

Poet’s itch

On my back