Garden Tools

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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