Writer’s block
on Sheila Ash (India), 18/Mar/2016 07:03, 34 days ago
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This week’s visual trigger for our Creative Writing Group was an old wooden writing case - a lockable box, key lost, meant to store paper, pens and ink, complete with blotter and hard writing surface It was scribbled all over in childish doodles, grown up jottings and maths calculations from many years ofuse. It had been found in a junk shop filled with small remnants of china, tops to ginger jars, handles to tiny caskets and pots, other brass locks etcMechanical movementsseized with ageforget to grind and groan.No key to unlock fortune or fateparts lie discardedfor generations to cometo quizzically ask“who wrote these words?”“what childish hand drew herebefore the elder’s calculations?”The blotter’s taleskept encasedtill we lift the lidreleasing musty airsand histories fly forthto pens anew© Sheila Ash 14thMarch 2016ashramblings