5:17 a.m. My eyes open in bed. I had a dream that woke first my mind, then my body. My face is pressed against a sweet, softly-sleeping baby. In the dark I lift him up and carry him across the room to place him gently in his crib. He doesn’t wake. A small miracle. I…
Tag: writing about writing
The Daily Turn #25: This Pencil
No matter how muchI shake this pencil,I can’t get the wordsto come out.I will take it backto the store first thingin the morning.But tonight,I am just going to sleep.
The Daily Turn #21: Blank Wall
Inspiration is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Take the blank wall I am staring at right now. Someone might see it as a barrier to creative thought, something solid and immovable, a metaphor for writer’s block. Windowless, it sheds no light on the question asked (what words are gathering just underneath the tip…
The Daily Turn #2: Photograph
More now Than maybe ever I am longing for hours. To scratch out ideas On brightly-colored paper With the sharpest-possible-point of pencil. And Thought, like a bird perched Ready to fly Somewhere he has never been: The dirt-bank edge of a glassy lake The shoulder of an ancient tree Uncut grass, ripe with wild violets…