I SEE YOU, RACHEL

I find there are too many folk

offering you the benefits of their education

the vagaries of their experience

without understanding their journey is not yours.

* * *

The advice they proudly profess

is a product of a singular moment for

an individual and as such may share the experience

but not the result.

* * *

I long for stories which don’t tell us

what to do, or how to do it.

But the struggle writ large:

a protagonist wrestling their life

into alignment with their efforts.

* * *

Whenever I think of writing, the Muppets come to mind.

The Magnificent Mumford is the poster child

for the ambitious, the creative, the exploratory

more concerned with process than result.

* * *

Mumford reminds me

it’s not the magic

that matters,

it’s the wonder of trying.