Simple Acts

A few months ago I was feeling disgruntled. My creative writing wasn’t working well—I was blocked from the poems I knew I had in me. Exasperated, I wished I could write a work that would make something happen. Maybe a letter or an article or an essay.

Then via Facebook, I learned that a poet friend is suffering a disorder whose major symptom is vertigo. This news made me think back to a poem I’d written but not yet published, based on my own experience of a spinning world.

So I sent it to her and got this reply, “Thank you so much for this lovely poem! It's actually one bright spot in this dreary experience--I really admire it, and I'm grateful you sent it.”

During her difficult challenge, a small poem brought a moment of pleasure, making “something happen," afterall.