Dear Planet,
Today I’ll find your sequence and discover my first doors.
If I have courage it is the courage to be thoughtful.
I try to write. This is what I’ve come to know about writing
what I know.
The dangerous thing about listening is the sudden, shining poem.
Is there anything more, earth, you dare me to imperfectly say?
When we’re writing we’re fighting. (This is what I know about writing.)
This is what I know to fight.
Creating is not the same as arranging and neither is the same as naming.
I’m a transcriber. I take note and settle on the words. I sequence the universe.
Say what you thought you heard.