Why I Write

Being a writer is a terrific
excuse for standing stark
still inside a clump of woods
in the city, not listening

but drinking the shrubby
overgrown tangle of blackberries
and grass, sturdy pines
(or spruces) clothed in lichen

before the naked sky.



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