Natalie Goldberg is an advocate of writing for the sake of writing. One of the exercises she proposes in her unparalleled Writing Down The Bones is that of sitting down and making yourself write -- and once you start, not letting the pen stop until you are finished (usually these are timed sessions). Just free-flowing thoughts from brain to hand ( Read more... )

Onwards

Strangers eyes lock and apologize to each other
wordlessly, beneath the hi. Jackets swoosh on,
hurrying the struggling grass.

Kindness is a reflection in a plastic glass
floating inside muddy eddies under bridges fog shrouded,
submerging, submitting, malnourished.

A pinky finger is tracing mindless highways out ( Read more... )