Ode to a Magnetic Screwdriver

If the part that screws is the head — this X- shaped tip — then the other end must be tail: the shaft rooted in transparent sun- colored plastic like an insect in amber. And considering how the power drill with screwdriver bit has replaced it, this might as well be a relic from the Mesozoic. The tip attracts anything steel, but can only solve for x, descending into the head of the screw like a spirit into someone possessed, spinning like a purpose- driven whirlwind in a desert of wood, inclining ever so slightly toward magnetic north.