wordfall

it would seem that i got busy, android got instagram, and i forgot how to write.
all the wells dried up, and i climbed inside, to sit in the coolness and let my mind take its leave.

but that’s not true, is it?
the wordfall never stops.
a stream the same on no two steps.
a passing train, a steady downpour.

the listening is where they lose me.
i don’t want, don’t need, don’t care to find the time.
until i do, and i can, and i can’t not try,
with aching fingers, blurry soul, and stopped up spirit,

to leave this airport chair, this endless wait, this breaking day,
and go instead to the mind’s stilly bank,
where the words rush too loud not to listen.
i catch the few i can in passing.
a day’s ration, at least.

 

just write

 

whispers of a wooden world

Kara was a fairy child, half gypsy, made of signal smoke.

I can’t remember her eyes, hair, or skin color, but the playground whispers, the stories of far away mysteries, those she painted on thick as the ink-mud we’d imagine with, deep into the darkening night, until there were only mother voices and mosquitoes left to guide us home.

Her favorite story was about the wooden world . . .

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follow me to the collective for the rest of kara’s story.
my talented friends and i are writing pieces inspired by some amazing listener projects. i love a good writing challenge almost as much as i’ve come to love this song!

before you go, take a moment to listen & watch the song i chose for inspiration: wooden heart.

now go read the rest!

unseasonable

 

image via weheartit

i woke easy this morning, just before my alarm,
thin film of sweat already painting my skin.
i beat the roofers to work, so their closed chain gate implied,
the sky is darker this week, thick with fog and awkward time.

it’s all just so . . .
unseasonable.

tonight, we’ll strip more blanket from the bed,
one more layer of safe-bundled comfort,
exchanged for the bare and more true, i can hope.

transfigured, reordered, remade.

 

justwrite

 

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