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Atma Frans shares her poem ‘How Joy has Drive its Roots Into Me,’ along with her thoughts on revision, creative success, and the good advice she once received from Robert Bly. Thank you for sharing your poetry and time with us Atma! pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

Robert Bly told me in a beginner's workshop to start a poem with the first image that comes to mind and to trust the words that spring from it, to follow them till they carry you to a new place (and then to discard the initial stanza). Nearly a decade later, I still consider this advice useful, the idea of surrendering to language, and to continue the poem till you arrive at a surprise or a discovery.
ATMA FRANS How Joy Has Driven its Roots Into Me I could tell you about the first strawberry of the season, the surprise when the flesh broke under my teeth, wielding its sweet flavour, how there is only one ocean, called by many names, how sometimes a bald eagle will pause on a beach, talons gripping the pebbles, a breeze in its brown feathers, how the colour of dusk is the same wherever I am, a specific blue between cobalt and ultramarine, how the absence of pain fills me with light, how for days, l've been carrying stillness, how I woke one morning, my tendons no longer tender and bruised, humerus no longer grinding against my scapula, how rain was soaking into dust, turning a desert into a field of fragrant colour, insects above the sudden blossoms, how I became all tongue.
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