You could sit here for hours, watching the light slowly disappear across the water. No plans. No rush. Nowhere else you need to be. And you probably already know who you’d want sitting beside you.
-How do you begin a poem?
-Other way around. It begins me.
When literature laureate Anne Carson talks about her creative process, she often describes writing as opening herself and listening to whatever shows up in the mind. In an interview she compares creating something from scratch with following a fox that runs across your backyard. If you decide to follow it, you might get to see where the fox lives.
”Just think about something and follow it down to where it gets true.”