Monday June 08, 2009
pandora’s box
I haven’t been writing in my paper journal in recent weeks - which is usually a sign that things are a little out of kilter. This week I’m going to try to write just five things a day in there, to ease myself back into it. I have to start doing it again, because that is where most of my poems are born.
A friend observed that the blog has featured a lot of lists and list-like poems lately - and she’s right. I think sometimes when the whole is a little too big and confusing, I go back to the naming of parts. Observing the details is more manageable than making sense of the whole.
I feel like life has been one big endurance test lately.
I read somewhere the phrase “we forge ahead blithely, as if plans were guarantees.”
Last week, someone I know mis-used the phrase ‘opening Pandora’s Box’ to mean a box of treasure, a box of joy…
It made me smile.
I know I’m not making a whole lot of sense. Thanks for sticking around to read anyway.
Just five things a day, I will inch back towards myself, towards the writing that always helps me - even when I think I can’t do it.