crucial to finding the way is this there is no beginning or end only a lingering in the middle caught in the middle of nothing and nothing with no end marks and capital letters no space whiteness on a paper where a word isn’t and silence takes over just a blob of words on a page of middleness
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dVerse prompt on prosy using Jo Harjo’s line Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end. combined exercise with Ursula K. Lê Guin’s Steering the Craft Exercise 2 to write with no punctuation
wordshophop 
…a page of middleness … how I love that phrase. Sometimes we seem to live our lives in middleness too, don’t we?
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With no beginning or end, we’re stuck in middleness.
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And THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how it is DONE!
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Jane,
The middleness of things: neither here or there — What an interesting concept!
Pax,
Dora
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This was awesome! I am a fan now.
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Very meta, Jane – this is the kind of writing that I love 🙂
Yours,
David
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‘just a blob of words on a page of middleness’ – I love that! Nicely done 🙂
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Love this stream of consciousness … perfectly suited to the line Merril gave us. Brava, Jane!
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I have meddled a lot in the middleness of things.
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I think you’ve reflected the idea of “middleness” in the style of this piece….flowing without beginning or end as I felt it continue past the words…..
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Like stepping into and being caught in someone’s stream of consciousness. “just a blob of words on a page of middleness” is so striking!”
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