w a n d

a smiley face, a manifesto,
doodles comic, deathscenes tragic,
a recipe for lime-green pesto,
you wielding Pencils make some magic.

Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios once pointed out that there were 35,000 words in a single pencil. Bless him!

Few of us use the word “wand” without front-loading it with “magic.” What wand isn’t?