Marginalia (by Anna C. Morrison)
photo of Anna C. Morrison lifted from her MySpace page
Marginalia
When you write me into the margins (even though some of my favorite books have the best insights written in scribbled frantic pencil marks scattered around the pages in my own handwriting, or reasonable facsimile thereof), I feel like I can never fill the full page, even though I am worthy of so much more than a mere paragraph, which I don't even get the honor to write. I can only scribble frantically, trying to keep up with the pages as they turn, learning new words and hopping on my eraser to censor my editorials, correcting grammar that has already been set in ink. Someday my lead will break, and the margins will be clean once more, your hovering insight gone from sight. And then what will you do? Read the same boring words over and over again, hoping for more, but that is all she wrote.
© 2007 Anna C. Morrison
used with the author's permission
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Anna C. Morrison is a children's author and popular blogger from southern California
Find her here: http://annacmorrison.blogspot.com/
and here: http://www.myspace.com/angeliqueshakespeare
oh! my anna! i know where this comes from, and goes to, but my dear, i believe we already know this about each other.
i am so happy that you submitted something for john's online library!
and yet again, i say the answer is brown
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Hazel! But I love the M&M!
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well sure, i know that NOW! *laughing*
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Thank you! Both of you
And he will never see it, unfortunately, but I did read this in May at Spalding to a group of fellow MFAers and they seemed to like it.
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Thank you, Anna! It's a pleasure to be able to feature you here.
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