Venture (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, published in Writers at Play Presents: The Art of Letter Writing, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2023. From July 5, 2022, feast day of (above) Our Lady of Refuge (also yesterday), the Seven Joys of Mary, Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, and Saint Modwenna. Archduchess Margaret of Austria also remembered today. Image from here.)

Venture

(an itinerary for when mind swirls,

journal jumbles; after Drew Gardner)

venture (n.)...a variant of adventure (n.)

Trusting honesty

moving toward form, 

its buzzy rich sound,

its hands round what 

heart feels and knows yet 

not, trusting--trusting 

honesty, moving

toward form 

*From combined prompts: Freewrite as inspired by Drew Gardner’s “Five Essays”, from Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, July 5, 2022.