release: the black composition diary note #5

Each day presents new issues and they need not be brought into the next day. But there are practices and rituals (like this journal) that might need to be repeated in order to open new possibilities.

It’s been about a month since I returned from my r———-y at [redacted]. In that month, I have not really been able to do much writing. The uncommon experience of having space to write was no match for the reality of having that space constricted almost immediately by the presence of both grief (again and again) and the everyday which chokes creativity. I…