I imagine the desk a little lopsided, shimmed with love letters. The sun from a far corner blanching the wood yellow. I picture her standing, leaning in at the desk binding the pamphlets by hand. Bites in the darker wood where her hips pressed. Rings like bruises where bottles of thin ink rested. There’s a faint scribble in the middle, sunken swatch where wrist and elbow worked. I imagine her sharp pen catching in the grooves. In the next room, ghost sounds, lead type dropping into wooden boxes Her husband standing at the hand press. Her fingernails bitten as she coins phrases jump the fence sticks and stones Fingers sawing away at perfection. To ...