POETRY PROMTS

Jarrett Moseley

Keep your laptop by your bed. Right before you fall asleep, in that place where you’re between conscious and unconscious, do a free write. Write as much as you can, with no concern for coherency or meaning. The next day, take the document and open it up — delete every line or every part of a line that doesn’t interest you. What remains will be fragments: now, piece them together like a puzzle. Think: how do they fit? What do they have in common? What’s missing between the threads? Then sew.

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