Writing Unencumbered - Rich Meyers

[Larry Robinson]

Writing Unencumbered

I wrote books I thought would please my masters.
I wrote poems that were received as illumination
while others balked at a complexity, too confounding.
I wrote stories, long and short, from the inside out.
first and second person, too often muddled by a
vague and ambivalent author. Someday I hope to
sit under an open sky and write until twilight, maybe 
beyond, when all the light is gone and whatever
I am writing is no more than a part of the darkness.
I will refuse a lamp and any revision by moonlight.
And there sitting and merged in intimate dark, my
mind smoothed out over the beckoning blank pages,
I will feel the ease of the pages writing themselves
with the pure natural invisibility of my hand.

    - Rich Meyers