Proofing

She starts to gather speed

and strokes the growing length of clause

and then there is no comma stops and marks and picks again against the grain of thought

and feels the burring sense of misplaced word and pushes back against it hard and ticks beneath citation end and hits the point where teasing intro stops and sentence frag and here he's said too much and gone too far with no supporting facts and stops him yet again and teases his ideas as

the work collapses down

and

now at once

they know each other's point

with him across her mind her marks across

his red-lined

paper.