Narration - Excerpt from Big Magic (British, Engaging, Authentic)
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the tiger's tail. One of the best descriptions I've heard of this phenomenon that is of ideas entering and exiting the human consciousness of whim came from the wonderful American poet Ruth Stone. I met Stone when she was nearly 90 years old, and she regale me with stories about her extraordinary creative process. She told me that when she was a child growing up on a farm in rural Virginia, she would be out working in the fields when she would sometimes hear a poem coming toward her here, it rushing across the landscape after, like galloping horse. Whenever this happened, she knew exactly what she had to do next. She would run like **** toward the house, trying to stay ahead of the poem, hoping to get to a piece of paper and pencil fast enough to catch it. That way, when the poem reached her and passed through her, she would be able to grab it and take dictation, letting the words pour forth onto the page. Sometimes, however, she was too slow, and she couldn't get the paper and pencil in time. At those instances, she could feel the poem rushing right through her body and out the other side. It would be in her for a moment seeking a response, and then it would be gone before she could grasp it, galloping away across the earth, as she said, searching for another poet. But sometimes and this is the wild part, she would nearly miss the poem, but not quite. She would just barely catch it, she explained by the tail, like grabbing a tiger. Then she would almost physically pull the poem back into her with one hand, even as she was taking dictation with the other. In these instances, the poem would appear on the page, from the last word to the first backward but otherwise intact. That, my friends, is some freaky old timey voodoo style Big magic right there. I believe in it, though.