till the moon rises, the night opens, and all the stars shine out. - Lisa Suhair Majaj

soon syllables will fall from her lips
the first rain

My writing process is generally a bit haphazard. I carry notebooks around to capture ideas, observations, phrases, images, chunks of freewriting. I shift to the computer to do more substantive writing and work on craft issues. I always generate multiple drafts of pieces (keeping all drafts in a separate folder), and often experiment with form in different versions to see what fits the text best.

so I hoard memories
sort them for seeds to plant
pray they root