Hard to Love_Essays and Confessions by Briallen Hopper

Author:Briallen Hopper [Hopper, Briallen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing, Feminism
ISBN: 9781632868794
Google: yw5kDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07FLDGMY3
Goodreads: 44003519
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

Dear God,

Why am I such a dull lump? You give us leaven and salt and the moon shoaling blue, even as new daylight glades into morning. I want to wake early to write by that imperceptible changing of light when you can’t tell if it’s dark still or day yet. Sometimes you give me, on the cusp of waking from sleep, words, arranging themselves as if in the corners of the ceiling, lines fine and fragile as gossamer, the unseen seam between death and life. And I press snooze. Ten more minutes and ten more and so on, until those strands of You are lost to me. Next thing I know, I’m shuffling up to make coffee.

Lord, help me to sit here and tolerate this mangle of words. The belabored metaphors that mar the page, the lame turns of phrase I cross out and then try to salvage. Help me stand the pain to get the grace.

Help me sit here and work every day. I’ll mess up most of the time and blunder, sometimes, back to the blue glow of daybreak.

Ash

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