Smear [edit]

[RiverNotch]

Smear


Denial is like drawing
with black india ink. Isn't the typical and original sort of india ink already black? And besides, with "denial", I think it's the first thing to pop out anyway.
It covers all things
perfectly, indelible Indelibly?
- until you feel Not sure about the em dash before here, since grammatically it's smooth, and the poem doesn't feel sparse or blotchy enough for such a mid-syntax break -- and if it is staying, far prefer making it an actual em dash, or at least two hyphens.
that warm, wet warning
on one edge of your hand. I don't get why "one" instead of the far cleaner "the".

I looked it up - "india" should not be capitalized in this usage   .

Fair, but the clumsy bits do bring it down.