So I joined a writing group on Substack, run by the lovely Marjorie Lotfi. I'd attended a writing retreat she offered, last autumn. It's a half hour zoom call, with poetry readings and quick prompts for inspiration. I found the similar (longer) workshops that we'd done on the retreat helpful so I thought I'd make the effort to keep my poetry writing going.
I think of these like sketches. It's helpful to have a body of work that I can dip into and play with, rather than starting from scratch.
First prompt: a place that mattered (to you)
Spitting apple pips into the void.
Something takes root.
Second prompt: talking because someone is listening
Thoughts spilling out of me
all tumbled together
like when we broke the dam
that we had built at the beach
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