‘Letter of Resignation’

The title of the series indicates a single letter          

the many violent scribblings-out       

a roughly 10 x 10 inch square            

leaving a large amount of empty space        

This is an abstraction of writing                    

writing detached from its usual communicative function    

in the violent, agitated movement of pencil on paper         

emotions beyond words        

All writing as drawing

All writing as an act of drawing

All writing is drawing             

the repetitive circular scribbles that children typically produce

the chaos of the first draft     

the whiteness of the page     

children will ‘write’ you a chimney   

a thin, ruled line at the top, and then nothing                      

but a few minuscule flecks     

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