How does a poem begin?
I like it more when it gives me a nudge to begin, that I know it’s ready to jump out into the world. But it’s no magic and requires a great deal of preparation: watering, fertilising, weeding, providing shade or sunshine, etc. It might take months or years. Other times, when there is a great deal of ‘writing hygene’, quietude-plus-solitude, I let it flow. I might need to give it a nudge by reading, contemplating, etc.
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