About Jodey Bateman Pablo Neruda Translations by Jodey Bateman Contributors Abuela Musica Jalapeno Peppers Children’s Page Finder Submissions

The Blue Writer | Poem

 
 
 

The Blue Writer


One watches the night

Draw itself in etcheresque repeat,

Essence of ink-stained

Retching, a calibrator of tilings

Less amenably cauterized than

Other bleedings, dense as Lourdes,

And slowly pale to a shade

Of massyness almost 

Torquemadan. 


- David W. Mitchell
 
 

to David   /  to Moongate

.