Does it happen all at once? You wake up one day to no alarm, no birds outside the window— Purse your lips. Hum. Speak. Shout. Scream. Nothing. Or do you find it slowly, a little more of a little less each day, like a difficult friend you can learn to live with because the memories are sweet.
In January, a new Generative Writing Workshop is going to be coming to Mead Library! So of course, to be able to do one, I had to learn how to do one. Many thanks to Robin Brox for inviting me to the one she’s a part of to see how it worked – I loved it! We shared poems we loved, used those to create ideas and prompts for ourselves, and then wrote. Here’s mine, which is mainly based on both the phrase “Facing the Music” and the idea of trying to contain opposites.
