Black liquid silk, bleed out from onyx talon-tip: Like spilled obsidian liquor indelibly defacing lace, like a gleaming needle leaves glissading sable scars of curling script, let slip the sliding black racer snakes to trace the page. (c) Eric Robert Nolan 2020   Photo credit: By George Shuklin – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2209695