On Divorce Outside Marriage 022423 - a day or rendering on Clairefontaine Triomphe A4 with Private Reserve Electric DC Blue through the inimitable Waterman’s Ideal #415

A Wearying Winter, Late February 022323 - a sloppy day of rendering on the back of the first draft on Tomoe River A4 54 gsm with Namiki Black in the Armondo Simoni Club Gladiatore Medio arco bronze

Looking Back, I Was Wrong 022223 - day of composition rendering on a Winsor & Newton cold pressed postcard of 4” x 6” using an E.S. Johnson #5 MOP dip pen with Namiki Blue ink

A Little Dipper 021723 - a draft written the day after composition using the E.S. Johnson #5 mother of pearl dip pen and Noodler’s Anti-Fascist Blue on Clairefontaine Triomphe

East Lansing February Twenty Three 021423 - day of rendering of another tragedy in America here writ on Iroful A4 75 gsm in Noodler’s Anti-Fascist (!) through the Conklin Durograph PVD with 1.1 stub nib

Donegal Woven Into Golf 020723 - day after composition on Iroful A4 75 gsm and Iroshizuku kon-peki with the new Conklin Durograph 1.1 stub

A Little Ditty On Hubris 020123 - First final draft complete with on the fly edit corrected in red. And that is the Bexley Fifth Anniv. Stub nib with Noodler’s Heart of Darkness, the Omas Milord uses Waterman Audacious Red, both brilliant on Iroful A4 75 gsm

Like Birdieing a Long Par Four 013023 - a day of draft with little punctuation, the sonnetta was writ in Waterman Serenity Blue on Clairefontaine in the Stipula Adagio with stub nib

We Have Books 012823 - a day of composition on Iroful 75 gsm A4 with Namiki Black in the Omas Extra Stiloforo

A Brief Reprieve 012723 - day of composition rendering of the sonnetta, a modified sonnet with four iambic feet and four stanzas and a couplet, a first, right here in Diamine Oxford Blue out of the Omas 1991 Celluloid Grey Pearle on Iroful A4

Winter Refreshment 011923 - sonnet composed and rendered here in Diamine Oxford Blue on Iroful A4 75 gsm with the inimitable desk pen Waterman’s Ideal with flex/stub nib

Unsteady State 011623 - day of composition of the sonnet on Crown Mill Pure Cotton with Diamine Oxford Blue using the Waterman’s Ideal desk pen with stub/flex nib

I Have Two Simics Being Delivered 011123 - This sonnet was written the morning after composition using old Tomoe River Paper stock, here 8.5 x 11 52 gsm in white with iroshizuku kon-peki from the G.O.A.T., the Waterman’s Ideal #14POC.

Our Dangling Cafe 011123 - A fresh copy written after first draft day of composition on Clairefontaine Triopmhe A4 with Diamine Oxford Blue in a gushing Waterman’s Ideal #14POC

Toome Road 110222 - A day of composition rendering still close to the edited version in print. This version appears to have been written on Clairefontaine Triomphe A4 with Venvstas Mare Aperto in the Waterman’s Ideal desk pen with stub/flex nib.

You Are Invited to Return 010923 - First draft rendering of the poem written with the pen pictured and mentioned in the opening couplet. This on Clairefontaine Triomphe A4 in Venvstas Canna Di Fucile in the Waterman’s Ideal #0572 1/2.

No Papering Over My Love of Pens 010723 - Ars Poetica with Tomoe River 52 gsm A4 and Diamine Oxford Blue in the most splendid Waterman’s Ideal desk pen with stub/flex #2 nib. Made a dark blue, beautiful copy of this Boxing Day 2022 process poem.

Ebonite To The End 121722-2 - A day-of rendering of the poem written with the pens described in each stanza: Vermeil first stanza is at top, rhodium second stanza is at left, third stanza was written with the Waterman’s Ideal #554, at right, and the HC or heroic couplet is written with the Waterman’s Ideal #715. The 715 and the two Omas pens contain iroshizuku take-sumi, and the 14 kt gold 554 has Waterman Serenity Blue. Paper is Neenah Classic Linen 8.5 x 11. A fun document.

Another Sonnet View On Penmanship 010723 - This is a day after sonnet companion to Ebonite To the End written here on 52 gsm Tomoe River A4 using urushizuku take-sumi in the Waterman’s Ideal #715. Note the fun rhyme scheme carried through each stanza with the opposite compound word in the couplet.