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artist's way open studio (september)
September 20, 2006
artist's way: week 2
by gl. at 6:54 pm
last night's activity, motivated in part by the equinox on friday, was a poetry walk. in a poetry walk, you divide your paper into two sides: nouns & verbs. and we walk verrrrryyyy sllloowwwwlllyyy around the block, through the big field, writing down every noun & verb the we see, hear, smell, feel. the trick of it is not to write any adjectives or adverbs, and to write words as quickly as they occur to you. if you haven't written anything in a few seconds, you're thinking too hard. then you return to the studio & write a poem using some of those words:
transformation
some people bury the past
abandon it like a basketball in a field
but i open the door
bite the lock in halfi am blooming and dissolving
a lace of lights against the skyline
as the crickets sing
to the fallen apples
in the dusk...september 19, 2006...
center (safety): a handmade stamped brick surrounded by calligraphy tools, one of which is a supportive and expansive black feather, waiting to catch you.
music: tracy chapman's new beginning
posted by gl. | September 20, 2006 6:54 PM | categories: artist's way, writing