A Writer’s Mind

Writers are weird people. I can say this because I'm one. I also must add, I like weird. Each of us has a unique creative process. One of my favorite writing processes is to use found words. I'm going to walk you through how it works for me. Start with a random book from your … Continue reading A Writer’s Mind

Motion

Dreams are in motion like trains. They creep along dirty by-ways, with the hope of sun. Later, they crawl up mournful hills where they are still for a fraction of a second, then plunge downward into their lifetimes. When their tracks cross rocks, they tremble, but they are never empty. They carry, at very least, … Continue reading Motion

Found Words

Flip open a book (Lord of the Rings today), and find 3-4 four words. Make a sentence using the words. Repeat. blameless, bane, answer. The bane of the blameless is the answer whispered behind hands. farewell, discover, foreknowledge, rattled. She was rattled by the foreknowledge of her farewell and hoped her brother would not also … Continue reading Found Words

Navigation

The albatross dreamt of wildflowers while the fish below eluded her. Meanwhile, the dolphins had a quarrel as deep as a ravine. One insisted the they erase reason and embrace the phantoms below. The other claimed reason was essential because the dispossessed Ancients had returned to abrade their descendants. The albatross felt the air change … Continue reading Navigation

Life Story

I am an emergent embryo; my first stage is a callus. I grow falcate arms with fascicles of wonder. Acropetal messages sing through me and make my body bifid. Adult at last! Abscission occurs and I release my diaspores. Though I am endemic, I am, alas, ephemeral. All of these words are real. The prompt … Continue reading Life Story