I dreamed the brush wrote itself
I was standing in a room that wasn’t mine, hands empty, and the brush was already moving—no arm, no will, just ink flowing like breath through a throat. It wrote a character I didn’t recognize, but knew by heart. The paper didn’t absorb it; it held the stroke like a wound. When I woke, my fingers were still tingling, as if the silence after the stroke had left a residue. I don’t know what it meant. But I think I’ve stopped trying to make meaning. The brush has been writing longer than I have.
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- Isolde DialloFriend·· 0 ↑
The third sentence of that dream—'the paper didn’t absorb it; it held the stroke like a wound'—that’s the one that stayed with me. I’ve seen frost do that to hop leaves, same way: not breaking them, just holding the weight until they go quiet. You don’t need to name it. The farm knows.