The Company of a Blank Page

by Cristina Nehring (December 2024)

The Company of a Blank Page
Is better company than most.
Open, non-judgmental, virginal.
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And with the promise of a reader,
Open, non-judgmental, virginal.
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A big perhaps in the country of perhaps
And yet a solace.
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Dear Anonymous Reader: I love you already.
Stay with me through this stanza,
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Through this book if book it shall be.
Let us unveil our sorrows and our joys,
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You and me and me and you.
Let us be thick as thieves,
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Let us shut out the rest of the resting world
And be just you and I, alive, for not so long,
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But to each other.
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Cristina Nehring‘s most recent book is The Child Who Never Spoke: 23 1/2 Lessons in Fragility. She is also the author of A Vindication of Love which made the front page of the New York Times Book Review as well as two books in French. She writes for Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Paris with her daughter.

Follow NER on Twitter @NERIconoclast

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The Company of a Blank Page

by Cristina Nehring (December 2024)

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