This Writing Lark
/Awww… Shit.
This writing lark.
It’s like waiting all night in the freezing cold
eyes glued to the hillside
Praying for a glimpse
Giving everything
Everything-
to stay awake
to stay still
to bear the freezing ground
the rocks that grate my backside
Then suddenly finding I’m awake,
and it’s light
and I hadn’t even realised I’d fallen asleep
and my eyelashes are ice,
and my vision is blurred
and there’s a dark line in the snow
winding away
Until it vanishes.
And,
heart sinking
I know.
They’re the tracks of The Cat
he’s passed by in the night
It’s all been for nothing
Fucking for nothing.
That’s what it’s like---
to look, at these ink marks on the page.
And be so damn brimful of disappointment
for what yearns to be spoken
that I cannot find a way to say.
-Bridget Holding
We unpeel those layers that have attached themselves over time, by finding word portals back to a freshness of thought and expression.