Smear [edit]

[dukealien]

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Smear


Denial:  drawing with
dark india ink
making all opaque
indelibly

then too late
warm, wet warning
down along
your sliding hand.

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Many thanks to the three high-quality critics.  My main problem here (so far) was that I wrote a very short poem using longer-poem techniques rather than an austere haiku-like style... then posted it in Short Form instead of  Mild.  However, the critics rightly critique it  as Short.  To which I respond by going a bit spare, er, austere... and also lengthening it .

@all - hyphen eliminated and "indelibly."

@Erthona - your suggestions addressed, including which hand (though it's by no means unknown to perform the classic draftsman's smear with the straight edge or the support hand).

@RiverNotch - I've drawn (and airbrushed) with colored "india" inks, but they don't smell like the real thing.  And they only stain, they don't lock in and hang on like grim death as the genuine article does.

Hope adding the "too late" business doesn't make the intended analogy with psychological denial too opaque