Signature

By Sailor Rose

Artwork by Ava Sharp
Repeated, replicated, imitated 
But each print
A little different, iterated
The cards in my wallet are dated 
By my signature
From first name and a heart
To first initial, last name, cut the heart
To legal name, hold the heart in my heart

We wrote across state lines
Letters filled with
That barely legible script
Of friendship but
She’s changed her writing style
It’s just silence now

My signature
On the birthday card
That fifties calligraphy
So smooth and sloped, it looped
Now a nervous mess
Each letter its own
Timestamp of the stroke

I wrote my name in crayon
I wrote it with a pencil
It was written with an erasable pen
A pen, just a regular pen
And I type it, I type it–
Who signs their name anymore?

The birthday card’s a text
The letter a novelty
The wallet is my phone
The book a PDF
My pens have run dry
The caps are long lost but signet rings are back in fashion–

So when will the signature trend?

Author Bio

Hi, I’m Sailor! But to know me a bit better I’m Rory Gilmore, Hermione Granger, Susan Pevensie and Belle. I adore reading fantasy and queer romance novels and I love to write them too. If I’m not reading or writing, you’ll find me doing some copywriting for my super-cool jewellery job, interning at a local publishing house or working on the latest issue of ScratchThat. As long as I have a cup of tea and some Ludovico Einaudi, I’m ready to write!