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Poem of the Month: August 2003

The Unwritten Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written never been spoken never been taught they're hiding they're awake in there dark in the dark hearing us but they won't come out not for love for time for fire even when the dark has worn away they'll still be there hiding in the air multitudes in days to come may walk through them breathe them be none the wiser what script can it be that they won't unroll in what language would I recognize it would I be able to follow it to make out the real names of everything maybe there aren't many it could be that there's only one word and it's all we need it's here in this pencil every pencil in the world is like this - W.S. Merwin Journal prompts: Take 15 or 20 minutes today to write something that wants to be known. What are some stories from your own life that are unwritten?  Who "walk(s) through them/ breathe(s) them/ (is) none the wiser"?  Can you write one of these stories? What is the "one word" for you?  Start with this word, and free-write from it.

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