I still do it very rarely. I did a quick poem this year as part of a historical myth for a fictional world, actually. It feels very different than it used to. The process is more of a conscious, deliberate effort and less of a rushing flow of feeling. It's definitely more cerebral than visceral now. And yet, I don't think that the finished product is necessarily less emotionally intense, just more focused and restrained. It's less like I'm venting my own emotion into the slipshod containers of words, and more like I'm meticulously packing the reduced and combined chutney of many people's emotions into delicate jars that might shatter with the weight.
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