Second-Hand Advice

“Just write it.”
Put pen to paper in that intimate ache
Like a lover’s thrust
And write.
Let it flow in ways you never dreamed it could
Just tear down the flood gates restraining rushing tumbling words like swift salmon
Fleeting and silver in the half-light of my head.
Well, I’m writing now and
I’m caught in the slipstream of furious expression
I don’t know where we’re going, but
Anywhere has to be better than here.

Nicole Best