With This

eric mccarty
2 min readOct 21, 2021
With This — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

With this:

with this, I start writing — what I have is an empty page and the willingness for words to appear, patience, and no agenda for a message to be told. It’s early and I can afford to wait, allowing the morning pace to match the flow of words. My writing is as the dawn, a slow illumination of what’s already present, new light on familiar themes of process, emptiness and the allowing nature of the page, and my own capacity being…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student