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Ada Limón: The Story of the Pencil

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

He takes the pencil out of his shirt pocket and gives it to her. It turns into a dragonfly and
then into her only reason to live. She is poor and carries the dragonfly-pencil in her apron
and writes him notes all day on paper towels. In the night, when everyone else is
sleeping, her notes fly to him and cover his window with bigger messages about safety
and human kindness. He is perfectly blond and shaped like a horse, like a horse-man, but
also he is very gloomy. So he makes a wish he’s not supposed to make and she comes to
him wearing only her dragonfly wings. They kiss a

Filed Under: Contributors 81, Issue 81, Poetry, Poetry 81 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 81, Poetry, Poetry 81

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