Today, we’ll begin with taking a little bit of a Mary Oliver poem, Wild Geese:

You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

And so your prompt today is to begin with this sentence:

“The animal of my body loves….”

Did you find some momentum yesterday? I hope so – and if not, today is a new blank page, a new five minute sprint, a new image. This week, we’ll keep the focus on living things, new beginnings, new shoots. We’ll be working with things we can see, so allow yourself to notice the detail. Remember, if you don’t see an image straight off, just rewrite the sentence, changing or adding one word at a time. Enjoy!

Today, write about a tree. Real, imagined, dead or alive – doesn’t matter.

A tree. Begin with what you see and see where it leads you.

Describe an animal you – or a character – is frightened of.  Begin on the smallest detail you can see.

Write about your breath, or a character’s breath. Notice it. How does it sound? How does it feel? Where does it go?

Someone is lying down in the grass. What do they see?  Write that.

Begin with this phrase and keep writing…

“This is the garden where everything begins..”

Write about blood.