Refugee
I can think of reasons to put your child in a boat,
but only one to put your child in a boat alone
and watch the curve of the ocean
swallow what once seemed
so large.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Day 1: Short Intro
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."
-Muriel Rukeyser
There's a poem I love by Muriel Rukeyser called "Poem White Page White Page Poem", which is about the frustration and beauty of creation. It's a wonderful poem and you should read it when you have a chance. The past 8 years I've been stuck with the frustration and not the beauty. It's not that I don't want to write; it's that writing is hard labor and the labor is painful.
But I want to work now.
Here's my plan, which I'm sure I'll regret in days or hours or minutes. Every day I'm going to write something and put it on this blog. My hope is that this process will keep me accountable to myself and that something good will come of it. Maybe I'll give up in days or hours or minutes, but right now I feel like trying.
-Muriel Rukeyser
There's a poem I love by Muriel Rukeyser called "Poem White Page White Page Poem", which is about the frustration and beauty of creation. It's a wonderful poem and you should read it when you have a chance. The past 8 years I've been stuck with the frustration and not the beauty. It's not that I don't want to write; it's that writing is hard labor and the labor is painful.
But I want to work now.
Here's my plan, which I'm sure I'll regret in days or hours or minutes. Every day I'm going to write something and put it on this blog. My hope is that this process will keep me accountable to myself and that something good will come of it. Maybe I'll give up in days or hours or minutes, but right now I feel like trying.
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