verse/image: ralph murre
DISAPPEARING
INK
by Bill
Yarrow
The
inverse of disappearing ink
is
invisible ink, writing (with
lemon
juice, for example) which
can be
seen only when warmed
(that is
to say, burned). I guess,
their
marriage was kind of like that,
him
writing with ink that disappeared
over time,
her writing with ink no one
could see.
As the years passed, she could
no longer
find him, though she looked hard.
As the
years passed, he couldn’t read her
(could he
ever?) even as she became heated.
They
didn’t run out of each other’s ink.
They just
grew tired of reading, I think.
~ first
published in New World Writing
