Practice

I've been thinking a lot about what essential poems are for me in my life. The things I need to write, what I feel turns over and over in me. It isn’t always what turns out well, in fact it sometimes seems like those poems are the ones I never feel I do well. They are “too big” to tell. Dorrianne said to always try to put on paper the poems that are too much, those are words which challenge us to keep our work fresh.

Bella Waring said, when you write a poem for its own sake, this is a holy practice that, once you start to publish, you are in danger of losing.

I’ve been thinking too much about the book, my next steps in writing and I’ve forgotten the holy practice of poetry.