This is a poem from David Berner's collection Garden Tools.
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“For the Writer”
Upon my mat
before a candle
incense drawn from flame
a woodpecker working
in the half-night of pine
its rattle and crack
And on my desk
a typewriter sits
my journal at its side
pen before the page
in the mystic
I dream of magic
For if I saint
or devil’s best
I forever hammer
at the bark
in silent night
or morning moon
My beak against the wood
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