At Home Here

eric mccarty
2 min readDec 3, 2021
At Home Here — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

At home here:

it’s to let any thought be at home here, no wish to chase it back to silence — that whatever’s present is allowed its free expression. I am uncensored in creativity, unconcerned by thoughts passing, and everything is entertained not by value, but by presence alone. So I wake up early, hours still before dawn, sitting before my keyboards, empty screen at first, coffee at hand, and wait for words to find me, no hurry, they…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student