it's like glass
blowing
writing stories
heating that molten
glob of an idea
pulling a gather
blowing it into life
with your own breath
twirling to look at
it from all angles
as it expands
hand blown a story
can be annealed
rolled finished in
the glory hole
but it is really
only
when an editor
wants
to cold work it to
some new perfection
and you want to say
but this is why I
shaped it like that
that you remember
that you need to
punty it onto a new base
crack it clean from
it's beginnings
rework the rim and
upper body
shape the lip so
that no scarring shows
and this is what
makes you think
writing stories is
just like glass blowing
if we didn't break
them off
they would still be
attached to our mouths
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