Write about important things
things that move me
things that crush me
Write about hurricanes
and avalanches
the earthquakes of my soul
It’s the grit beneath
my fingernails
it’s the cartilage in
my vertebrae
I am driven to expose it
to pull it out
hold it up
to the light
I am only the messenger
of all the beauty
underneath the common face
beauty in the unheard voice
I hear it
I draw the letters
to form the words
to give it name
First published in Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems.