Apr 122010
It rattles.
When I shake my head
something in there rattles.
I don’t know what it is.
Odd.
You’d think
that with its proximity
to my brain
I must know.
[What if it is my brain?]
Sometimes my pen
turns rattles in my head
into smudges on a page.
Let's do Something Cheap and Superficial 
it’s not lethal like the slithering sort of rattler is it?
Nope. More like a baby’s rattle. Harmless, but annoying if you have to listen to it for any length of time. ~Tim
Rattles MUST be turned out onto a page before they turn into clink-kerchunks. Those solidify, you know…
And having clink-kerchunks [especially after they solidify] sounds really painful. Thanks, Laura. ~Tim