A bone style,
sharp-pointed,
incises letters
on a wax tablet.
A bone style
flat, broad
smoothes
what is written.
A graver can bend
a legend,
settle or balk,
in such a manner
legal & slow
like time kept
with shadow
or signed
with a stylus
on straw paper.
With style
the drummer whisks
and wipes
his snare
like butter,
the shadow
still
should melt
under stage lights.