Midwifery

Practiced stillness is the midwife of poetic gravity.

It nurtures a metaphorical language that breathes life into story. Thus, stillness is a sacred discipline for the writer. It prepares the writer to participate in the creative and recreative power of words and story.  This capacity for inner listening is a precondition for creative thought.

French philosopher, Gaston Bachelard, believed that the psychology of the imagination is revealed through the language it inspires. The imagination is not the faculty for forming images of reality; but instead, it is the faculty for forming images which reach beyond reality, which as Bachelard expresses “sing” reality. This echoes the concept of poetic gravity.

Bachelard claimed that the imagination invents more than objects and dramas – it invents a new life, a new spirit; it opens eyes which hold new types of visions.  Imagination creates.

The creative act is numinous, sacred and mysterious. 

Poetic gravity is the language of numinousity. Writers approach a sacred vocation in the cultivation of the word.