The Wabi-Sabi Writer

Tomorrow begins my quest to write a novel in a month.  50K words in 30 days.  As I sit here contemplating a month of words, I am faced with the ever familiar dilema - what to write.  Sometimes it is just a matter of sitting down, of putting pen to paper, fingers to keyboard.  Or the scavenger hunt for the elusive "time" to write.  Hints of it, in retrospect after a day long Orange is the New Black or Game of Thrones...

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It has been a long timeI have not wanted to facethe honestythe bleaknessthe harshnessthe realitythat becomes undeniableonce strokedthat spacebetween the linesat last...the wine flowslush and longribbonswarming wordslike velv...

I am aloneexcept for thosethat run hot and coldcircles around meA howling maelstrom whips wildlong brown hair and intentionslike an afterthoughtonto the sidewalkoh sweet friendall blush and coyyou pull my truthout like a splinterI long to be freeof the fierce transfixionbut dread birthing the jagged pointthat rips both waysMy swollen lower lipthrobsthreatening to splita gossamer scarbetraying a slipin...

I hear my namebeing called in the soft static hissas the world turns vagueflickeringnotionsinto poisonous medicineI cannot stopswallowingHours stretch into daysseepinto weeksbleedinto yearsThe last wordsI hearmy own silenceWhere did my life go?The plasma shimmersblissfulinto the vo...

Words like clouds at dawncluster and fanout and acrossan endless intentionTheir brilliance glowsripebehind the blindsUrging me upwardsand outabove the sleeping citymy complacent comfortsto witnessinspirationif only for a few momentsmy bluesburnoran...