“Poetry can reveal connections between the seemingly small moments in our lives and the seemingly big concepts and ideas that shape our lives. Such a connection exists in this poem. When my friend, writer and performance artist Gabrielle Civil, suggested fellow writers Madhu H. Kaza and I try the new erasable pens she’d bought, I was horrified and surprised by my own strong response. I realized that the permanence of ink is part of what draws me to writing in the first place, because it represents the permanence of poetry.”
—Rosamond S. King