I have been sifting cellar earth
for signs of you,
blunting my fingers with prizing up flatstones
for clues you never buried:
splinters of gold
from your splinter-light eyes
or the wings you plucked
from the heart of words
you could not say.
At dusk the flowers whose name
was a secret you would not unfold
turn from white
to cinder-brown.
They drop dry seeds
one by one
to the pebbly ground.
G L Ford
Answer:
I generally keep a pocket notebook with me at all times, but then I have a mountainous amount of larger-sized diaries that everything gets copied into and that I journal in at regular intervals.
The smaller notebooks I tend to experiment with—such as size, paper thickness, lines or no lines, etc. But, the larger diaries are all the same or nearly so and I have those dated from first entry to last entry.
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