Look in
and see him looking out
He is not always
quiet, but there have been times
when happiness has come
to him, unasked,
like the stillness on the water
that holds the evening clear
while it subsides
-and he let go
what he was not.

~~Wendell Berry, Window Poems #5

"Let go of everything when you write, and try at a simple beginning with
simple words to express what you have inside. It won't begin smoothly. Allow
yourself to be awkward. You are stripping yourself. You are exposing your
life, not how your ego would like to see you represented, but how you are as
a human being. And it is because of this that I think ( Read more... )