Alice Hodgson

Start without stopping
drag the pen over the page
don’t rest until the mark is made –
make your mark –
scratch, scrawl, scribble
so that itch is no more.

Let the rhythm sink in
– don’t dare look around –
open the vibrations,
dig your feet in the ground and
let those shoulders roll:
you are the sound.

Write without thinking,
type from the white, blank, sparkly bank
of the unknown –
you are home, where words flow
and fresh meanings first meet –
the story is an intuitive heartbeat.