not blank

Even when a poet begins a poem, her page is not totally blank but houses ghosts of what poetry is, has been, and could be.

—Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

blank and expectant

It was one of those lovely blank notebooks you just knew you could write great things in.

no rain

Block: Why will the letters not rain over the desert blankness of the page?