Finding Gravity

Today I wrote most of “The Labors of Love” and revised it brutally - removing entire stanzas and trimming back the ending. Now I’ll just let it sit and will come back to it later.

This was an experiment in a couple of ways. I started out with one small seed of a line I liked… “a singe of faith”. I blurted out some things that were not very good around that idea, which was fine.

I had one central concept which involved firelight, so I wrote a micro-poem about just this idea and glued it in.

Once that was in, it gave me enough gravity to put everything else in place and I ended up deleting the original first stanza that contained the line seed entirely. With that part of the experiment done, I focused on the other - getting two pivots instead of one, which took a bit of effort but paid off. This stands alone from most everything else I've written.

My mind has been on the things people do out of blind faith and it’s starting to be everywhere I write. I’m okay with this obsession.