This practice is the companion piece to this poem, and it’s drawn from the Medicinal Poetry Writing method. The invitation is simple on the surface, but has been the beginning of most of my process-poems, the poems that help me metabolize the inedible, help me keep breathing when it seems impossible, to keep going beyond the impassable.
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