North Carolina Boundary Lines Drawn on an Oak Desk

blotter was a heavy, dark object that had not been there when I was escorted out of the building.

It was the original leather-bound 2010 ledger. Its cover was slightly scuffed at the corners, and the thick cream-colored pages inside still smelled of the archival glue we used a decade ago.

I turned to page forty-two, where the blue ink from my old fountain continue reading …