She's getting out of her own way.

not allowing perfectionism get in the way of progress

Improv & Perfectionism

like jazz, words scat 
a mumbo’d jumbo’d mess of 
sounds.

drumming lines,
shaping letters ,
forming words strung into phrases, 
thoughts with 
beginnings, middles, and endings.

a backbone of rules guiding prose
broken to form a new head.
fluttering hands 
float downward dog 
dusting the floor
crescendo up.

tessellated rhythms for a faithful few 
whistling cat calls for an overture unsung but
felt.

she is lifted.

reaching for the nearest, most convenient
syllables and phonetic mumbles,

mother bird hovers over her nestling
piecing herself together
as she spills out

fuel for their flight
without her.

Write

Open a blank page. Spend ten minutes of dedicated time for yourself to think on paper. What’s on your mind? Allow your thoughts to wander and take circuitous routes on the page. Let yourself mumble mumbo jumbo, jump from topic to topic, and see where it goes. If you need to pause in the middle of a sentence to meditate or breathe for a minute, do it - and then get the pen moving again (or fingers typing).

Too open of a prompt? That’s the point.

Let yourself be uncomfortable. Let go of curating an image of yourself. Free flow and see who or what shows up for you.

You can try to put it together neatly later if you want, but only after you let it all spill out.