The waters cease to flow and my mind becomes a dry desert, void of any green and brown or dreams. Words fail me. Dedication wanes. I posture in contention with an empty screen, my silence doing little to reach resolution.
The tea pot whistles, the phone pings, a dog barks in the distance and I remove myself to interject where wanted or needed. Anywhere but that blank screen and my vacuous mind which refuses to fill it.
The dry times are the hardest. I remind myself it’s temporary; I list the ways, committed to memory, of how to overcome, outdo, move forward. But I am uncooperative.
I need new stimuli, a piece of starlight dropped at my feet, the feather floating before my eyes, but it’s all just lies.
I blame the hostility of empty souls, the long blankness of lock down, the right light, the wrong pen, but it’s meaningless.
Streams create rivers which become lakes and flow into oceans. Water wedges into openings, fills spaces, creates movement.
Stay open. Always stay open.
Noreen Lace 
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