A Pampered Pen

Lest it not get smudged, scratched, or nicked

it travels in style, as all fountain pens should.

it's own little leather case from Switzerland, now

slightly scuffed at the corners, the zipper not so

smooth as it once was.

this pen, sometimes filled with blue, sometimes with

a brown the color of coffee, sometimes green like

late spring leaves, writes the smoothest lines,

the most beautiful words flow from it, not

because of me, just because, because it's a

beautiful pen in a lovely leather case from

Switzerland.